Posted on 12/14/2014 3:13:34 AM PST by Libloather
The Social Security Administration, which announced in April that it would stop trying to collect debts from the children of people who were allegedly overpaid benefits decades ago, has continued to demand such payments and now defends that practice in court documents.
After The Washington Post reported in April that the Treasury Department had confiscated $75 million in tax refunds due to about 400,000 Americans whose ancestors owed money to Social Security, the agency’s acting commissioner, Carolyn Colvin, said efforts to collect on those old debts would cease immediately.
But although some people whose refunds were seized were reimbursed in recent months, some of those same taxpayers have since received new demands from Social Security, asserting that the debts remain and seeking repayment.
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I’m so sorry to hear this.
say, neither of my parents lived long enough to collect a dime of what they put in. Do I have a redress ability in like kind?
my son is autistic, and we have a uphill battle to get benefits, let alone finding how my wife could get paid as his teacher. He is homeschooled after being attacked by a teacher’s aide on his 1st day of Spec.Ed preschool. The school system circled the wagons after that and I wouldn’t trust this city’s schools anymore. Nevertheless, people we know who worked in the school system wouldn’t couldn’t risk their retirement to help, testify, work behind the scenes, etc.
We get a letter from the socsec evey year sometimes every 4 or 5 months saying we earned too much and owe the Administration thousands of dollars despite my wife only working part time and me being laid off alot since the “recovery”. Sometimes they count past wages as if I was still working and unemployment as the reason.
Its just outrageous.
No one should be responsible for a dead ancestor’s debt.
Apparently, no one at Social Security understands that principle.
And the agency doesn’t even have the paperwork to prove these debts existed.
The only way to bring an end to this policy is to slap a cease and desist order on Social Security.
Thank you so much for the prayers.
Thank you for your expression of concern over our son.
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