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aGameOfThrones
06-14-2011, 07:03 PM
WASHINGTON — Social Security made $6.5 billion in overpayments to people not entitled to receive them in 2009, including $4 billion under a supplemental income program for the very poor, a government investigator said Tuesday.

In all, about 10 % of the payments made under the agency's Supplemental Security Income program were improper, said Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr., the Social Security inspector general.

"By any standard, the scope of these problems is considerable," said Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee. "Regardless of whether a payment occurs because of simple error or outright fraud, improper payments harm Social Security programs in the long term, jeopardizing benefits for those who may need them in the future. They also cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/retirement/2011-06-14-social-security-overpayments_n.htm

HOLLYWOOD
06-14-2011, 07:10 PM
well imagine that... back to the US governments "NOT RESPONSIBLE" for; Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.

Another reason not to give these swindlers a nickle.