This week, IRS CEO and Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano announced that a new screening and verification process had blocked $99 million in federal payments going to deceased payees. Since the executive order, Treasury has screened 885 million payments totaling $2.77 trillion, according to a department statement. Bisignano also pointed to broader problems within the Social Security database, which he says have now been reconciled. That doesn’t mean they were getting erroneous Social Security payments, but they had a live Social Security number that could be used for fraud, waste, and abuse,” Bisignano said. The Social Security Administration does not appear to have publicly released data or a report explaining how Bisignano calculated the figure.