(a) The Secretary shall periodically compare Department of Veterans Affairs information regarding persons to or for whom compensation or pension is being paid with information in the records of the Social Security Administration relating to persons who have died for the purposes of
(1) determining whether any such persons to whom compensation and pension is being paid are deceased;
(2) ensuring that such payments to or for any such persons who are deceased are terminated in a timely manner; and
(3) ensuring that collection of overpayments of such benefits resulting from payments after the death of such persons is initiated in a timely manner.