Don't Let Death Stop your Social Security

American Thinker ^ | 12/28/2013 | J. Robert Smith

[SeekAndFind]

Uncle Sam, always generous to a fault with taxpayers' money, doled out about $108 billion in Social Security benefits to the dead in 2012.  Give or take a few billion, over a decade that's about $1 trillion going to folks who crossed the River Styx.  Or more likely their kin, who may or may not take portions of the proceeds to decorate their loved ones' graves.    

The Washington Times reported on Friday that the Social Security Administration does a spotty job tracking Social Security recipients' deaths, hence the dollars for the dead. 

Reports the Times:     

"Because SSA does not verify death reports from sources it considers most accurate, the agency risks having erroneous information in its death data, such as including living individuals or not including deceased individuals," it said.

[trebb]

If I go first, I fully expect my wife to take advantage of my higher rates instead of staying with her smaller amount. Not what the article is about, but when you pay into a system by coercion, with a promise of a payback, you might as well take advantage of it. Especially since so many deadbeats/illegals reap the benefits they never paid for.

[sheana]

More or less the same here. I notified SS of my mom’s death and they said well it is probably too late to stop her check from automatic deposit, don’t touch it, we’ll reverse it. And they did.

[silverleaf]

claiming gender uncertainly seems like the new way for white men to game the system ... you can even order Victoria’s Secret underwear by mail in case the NSA IRS and Google check on you

good luck, tootsie!

[Southern Partisan]

Don’t get me started on SS... My parents died 18 months apart having just reached age 65. Everything they paid into SS over their working lives vanished into the black hole that is SS. It ain’t right.

[hal ogen]

So arrest and fine everyone who cashed those checks.