IRS Advised to Improve Verification of Agency Retiree Income

Government Executive: Nearly $16 million of additional federal employees’ money could have been withheld from distribution if the Internal Revenue Service had better communicated errors in benefits statements to agency payroll offices, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Mistakes such as wrong Social Security numbers on 50,000 income statements were submitted by 13 agencies in fiscal 2015, according to a report released last week. But due to poor communication, the IRS notified only four of the agencies, leaving 28 percent of the faulty statements in place.

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