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Stimulus Checks Mistakenly Sent to 1,700 Inmates, Federal Agency Says
NFox News ^ | Aug 25, 2009 | By Judson Berger

Posted on 08/25/2009 1:22:36 PM PDT by mware

The inspector general's office for the Social Security Administration is looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending. The Social Security Administration acknowledged the $425,000 glitch following a report that nearly two-dozen inmates in Massachusetts had wrongly received the $250 stimulus checks.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bhostimulus; devalpatrick; felonvote; inmates; lping; stimulus
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...and they want to take charge of MY health care?????
1 posted on 08/25/2009 1:22:36 PM PDT by mware
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To: mware

I can’t wait until they send my blood test results to inmates with all my personal info on them.


2 posted on 08/25/2009 1:23:51 PM PDT by stevecmd
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To: mware

Probably buying votes.


3 posted on 08/25/2009 1:24:08 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: mware

OOPS.


4 posted on 08/25/2009 1:24:13 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: mware
...and they want to take charge of MY health care?????

Who knows who they'll send your insulin to.

5 posted on 08/25/2009 1:24:24 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: mware

I have no problem with this, if it means less money to ACORN.


6 posted on 08/25/2009 1:24:48 PM PDT by scottinoc (Government run health care...not just no but HELL NO! - Sarah Palin)
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To: stevecmd

Ask the patients at the VA about medical test. Those poor guys who were told they had a death sentence only to find out later it was an error.


7 posted on 08/25/2009 1:26:12 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: scottinoc

Same difference. Acorn or Jailed thugs???


8 posted on 08/25/2009 1:27:25 PM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: scottinoc

I have no problem with this, if it means less money to ACORN.
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Uh,um, are they not one in the same??? :)


9 posted on 08/25/2009 1:45:29 PM PDT by purpleporter
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To: scottinoc

I have no problem with this, if it means less money to ACORN.
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Uh,um, are they not one in the same??? :)


10 posted on 08/25/2009 1:55:13 PM PDT by purpleporter
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To: mware

What will happen is they will attach the diagnosis of some AIDS infected crack whore to your name and social and they will put you on all kinds of unnecessary drugs when all you really had was a hangnail.

Yeah, that’s what I want.


11 posted on 08/25/2009 1:57:31 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
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To: mware

Nice. Taxpayers like me get shafted on our checks, but felons collect.


12 posted on 08/25/2009 1:59:18 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: mware

As we used to say in West Texas, “These guys couldn’t organize a two car funeral!”


13 posted on 08/25/2009 2:03:07 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Does "We All Weed Up" Indicate Obama Is Now Channeling Bob Marley?)
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To: scottinoc

These inmates probably are ACORN workers. My guess is that ACORN workers all got money from the stimulus as a thank you and keep up the good work incentive.


14 posted on 08/25/2009 2:05:56 PM PDT by madinmadtown (Nuclear...better to mispronounce it, than not understand it.)
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To: mware

Good thing this could never happen with Life or Death healthcare decisions.

< / ObamaCare>


15 posted on 08/25/2009 2:12:09 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("UPS and FEDEX are doing fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." - 0bummer)
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To: mware
It seems that the level of incompetence of the federal government is growing at an alarming rate.....ObaRahma seem to honor ineptitude and corruption and treachery..we are in the best of hands with the ObaRahma government.
16 posted on 08/25/2009 2:13:11 PM PDT by madinmadtown (Nuclear...better to mispronounce it, than not understand it.)
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To: mware

wonderful .. just wonderful
it’s okay because the new “environmental czar”
the guy who went to jail twice himself and is a self admitted communist

he is setting up job ready “green” jobs for inmates who get right out of prison anyway.
Might as well start padding the payroll now ...


17 posted on 08/25/2009 2:13:42 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: KingofZion

Felons have big screen TVs, free meals, free healthcare, free housing, etc.

The government spends more on Felons’ lifestyle than I spend on mine.


18 posted on 08/25/2009 2:13:45 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("UPS and FEDEX are doing fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." - 0bummer)
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To: mware

Incompetence par excellance — and they want to “care” for you, too.


19 posted on 08/25/2009 2:14:55 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (The essence of evil is found in the irrational.)
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To: mware

And the hits just keep on comin!!!


20 posted on 08/25/2009 2:16:15 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: babyfreep

agreed...this was no mistake....


21 posted on 08/25/2009 2:16:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: MindBender26
As we used to say in West Texas, “These guys couldn’t organize a two car funeral!”

Or win an ugly dog contest.

22 posted on 08/25/2009 2:17:40 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Good thing this could never happen with Life or Death healthcare decisions.”

Exactly!

Government health care, “Watch your back, Jack!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324132/posts


23 posted on 08/25/2009 2:17:47 PM PDT by AuntB (First the government cripples you, then it tries to sell you a crutch!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...nearly two-dozen inmates in Massachusetts had wrongly received the $250 stimulus checks.
Hey, back off -- mabye they were owed for that work they did for ACORN.
24 posted on 08/25/2009 2:19:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: mware

I’m sure they voted for Democrats in the last election, just a thank you note from the top.


25 posted on 08/25/2009 2:19:31 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: scottinoc

I have no problem with this, if it means less money to ACORN.

Problem is most of the people in there are members of ACORN!


26 posted on 08/25/2009 2:25:49 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: mware

I wonder if the married inmates got $1200 the government and the IRS are idiots plain and simple. They all need fired NOW!!!


27 posted on 08/25/2009 2:25:56 PM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: mware

We never got any stimulus checks from the government.


28 posted on 08/25/2009 2:26:34 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: mware

WAIT A MINUTE which stimulus? There were so many.


29 posted on 08/25/2009 2:27:21 PM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: mware

Inmates, congress, what’s the difference?


30 posted on 08/25/2009 2:28:04 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: stevecmd

You will most likely get someone elses test results and ignorant govt officials will force you into treatment for something you don’t even have....

Talk about Dr. Mengele driven health care.


31 posted on 08/25/2009 2:34:36 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (It requires the willing suspension of disbelief to believe what Obama says about Healthcare reform.)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Inmates, congress, what’s the difference?

Felons, congress, but I repeat myself.

32 posted on 08/25/2009 2:44:30 PM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: mware

I didn’t get a check


33 posted on 08/25/2009 3:02:46 PM PDT by GeronL (Toward the TOTUS State-Nightmare in Obamaland .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: mware

What stimulus checks, or does having a clean record disqualify one?


34 posted on 08/25/2009 3:08:49 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: stevecmd

Yeah, yeah, the government that sends all this loot to prisoners and erroneously gives 1400 Vets notice that they have Lou Gehrigs disease is going to efficiently transform your health services.
Maybe the best answer to providing medical insurance coverage to the uncovered is to figure out what it would cost to buy private health insurance for them, and then fire as many federal employees as it takes to cover the cost of it. Just randomly select the ones to go. It won’t matter which ones get the pink slip anyway, and if the government has to choose, it will take them a decade or more to do so as they flounder about trying to insure that the cuts fall evenly among departments, and don’t harm any special interest groups, minorities or women, gay, lesbian, transgendered, and, of course, all the other special considerations bureaucrats can come up with.


35 posted on 08/25/2009 3:10:33 PM PDT by mathurine (qu)
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To: unixfox

“out of step in a one man parade”


36 posted on 08/25/2009 3:14:09 PM PDT by mathurine (qu)
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To: mware

Was that inmates or innates ???

I’m innate soooooooooo..

Where’s mine ???

Oh, I see...

It’s in the mail...


37 posted on 08/25/2009 3:50:37 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: mathurine

Can you imagine the cadence that would be called on that one???

Enough to drive a Marine Corp D.I. insane...

Left...Left...Left...Left..Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...Left...

Where the hell is yo right???


38 posted on 08/25/2009 3:53:16 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: mware

That’s your government at work! Can you just imagine them taking over the health care system?! What a nightmare!


39 posted on 08/25/2009 3:53:36 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: mware
guess the democrats are back in charge.


40 posted on 08/25/2009 4:06:29 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: mware

Cute tagline!


41 posted on 08/25/2009 4:11:31 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
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To: mware
"I'll take 1,000 ramens please."
42 posted on 08/25/2009 4:13:13 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: CougarGA7

“they will put you on all kinds of unnecessary drugs when all you really had was a hangnail.”

And we’ll probably see Viagra and other ED drugs covered by medicaid before the 2012 erection.


43 posted on 08/25/2009 4:14:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: mware

44 posted on 08/25/2009 4:22:36 PM PDT by Bushbacker1 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: SunkenCiv

bookmark


45 posted on 08/25/2009 4:23:21 PM PDT by DrewsMum (Let men marry men and women marry women... and in 3 generations, there will be no democrats...)
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To: mware

I think they fully intended to send checks to these guys, they just didn’t realize they were in prison.


46 posted on 08/25/2009 4:24:34 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: mware

Why, this is mere chump change.
It is only 0.000000425 part of one trillion in the eyes of the Fascist.


47 posted on 08/25/2009 4:28:39 PM PDT by Sparko (December 7: National Day of Thanks for Birth of Obama - possibly in Hawaii, Kenya, maybe Canada)
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To: mware

“.and they want to take charge of MY health care????? “

BWAhahahahahahahaha!!!!


48 posted on 08/25/2009 4:32:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: mware

Accidentally, or paying off the constituents?


49 posted on 08/25/2009 4:46:12 PM PDT by MizSterious (Impeach Barak "let them eat cake" Obama, while there's still something of our Republic to save.)
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To: babyfreep

LOL! The comedy continues.


50 posted on 08/25/2009 4:54:51 PM PDT by Indy Pendance ("The beauty of the 2nd is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Thomas Jefferson)
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