Posted on 09/22/2023 4:48:39 PM PDT by Libloather
Social Security recipients have been hit with payback demands following overpayment - and now the government agency is facing questions over how billions of dollars were incorrectly paid out.
Numerous reports have told the stories of people, many of whom are vulnerable or suffer from a disability, who have been asked to pay back large sums due to the service accidentally giving them too much money.
Social Security payments are made for a variety of reasons. SSA benefits are paid based on your earnings record if you are aged 62 or older or if you are a person with a disability and have enough work credits. For many people who are unable to work or are retired, payments form the bulk of their income.
One woman in Ohio was mailed a bill in excess of $60,000 and ordered to pay by check or money order within 30 days, her caregiver told ABC News. Alex Hubbard, a young man who has autism, told Seattle news station KIRO-TV that he owes the agency over $11,000.
Newsweek was unable to confirm the current status of how much these individuals may owe to the Social Security Administration.
During the 2022 fiscal year, the SSA regained $4.7 billion of overpayments, while another $21.6 billion remained outstanding, according to a report by SSA's inspector general.
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Oh man. It gets crazier by the day and you never hear of anyone being fired.
Idiots.
Nope
Knock on the door?.........................
Boom boom boom !!!!!!
Maybe people spent it already on ammo, poisons and foreign hand grenades. Staples.
Okay, 0.4%. That's 1 in 250. That is truly dismal, and the ones who will be punished are the individuals who filed for SS based on information they had at the time. Those who screwed up within SS will *never* be punished.
Tired of losing yet?! For myself, I'm long past that point.
Americans who are living on a fixed income, with inflation at ~9% and crazy food, medical and utility prices. They get attacked without mercy. They paid into the system their entire life, now they are vulnerable
But illegals, who never paid a dime. Who hate everything this country stands for, who have no intention of ever contesting? They will never be considered as being given enough
What happened?
They need the money for Ukraine.
They need the money for the illegal aliens.
Only those who aren’t sound of mind would not know something’s wrong the minute they checked their bank statement. The rest apparently are thieves.
I will have Zelenskyy cut you a check in the morning
Looks the FJB administration is looking for money to make up for all the student loan handouts they gave to the deadbeats. The White House pedophile has to make up a lot of money to start paying his buddies’ their “reparations” voter bribe money.
I wonder if they all voted for Trump.
They need the money for the illegal aliens they pay $2,000 to when they come across.
Well it was the government that determined how much they were entitled to receive in the first place. Since when does a citizen have a right to challenge them.
The government is suppose to have the financial expertise to make these determinations. When they fail, unless they can prove fraud by the receiving party they should loose.
Incompetency and rejecting meritocracy have expensive consequences. The fed-gov CRT accountants can suck on it.
You cannot talk to anyone on the phone, have to wait hours at the office, and I doubt that there is a form to fill out that lets you repay the overage. You couldn’t give the money back if you tried.
It was the governments mistake, let them fire someone and eat the loss.
Last I checked, offices were still closed because “covid” and they are all “working” remotely.
> Only those who aren’t sound of mind would not know something’s wrong the minute they checked their bank statement. <
Here’s a classic dialog from the Simpsons. Grandpa Simpson has been receiving checks in the mail for money he didn’t earn.
Bart: Didn’t you wonder why you were getting checks for doing absolutely nothing?
Grandpa: I figured it was because the Democrats were in power again.
Re “What happened?”
Democrats happened.
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