Posted on 05/14/2009 10:50:41 PM PDT by television is just wrong
MYFOXNY.COM - This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her.
Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. He'd been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United Stated for a seven-month visit in 1969.
The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.
The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. The strange this is, some of the checks were made out to people -- like Romonini -- who were never even part of the Social Security system.
Hey, if these stimulus checks actually work for those receiving them, that’ll be somethin!
Gotta pay off those dead voters that voted as well.
Give ‘em Viagra, too.
Just rewarding the folks who voted for him.
jinx, you owe me a coke.
I’d be laughing if it wasn’t so sad....
And just how many "normal" SS Checks are being/have been sent to these people?
Well you know, the dead support liberal Democrats every election year....
Wonder how many of them have also been receiving social security checks all these years.
they already have wood in their coffin.
Why am I not surprised?
“the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago.”
Words fail.
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