of the Social Security Administration..."
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Now there's a good old "American" name...
Posted on 12/15/2023 10:10:55 PM PST by Libloather
FIRST ON FOX: Lawmakers want to know why the Social Security Administration has reportedly erroneously overpaid benefits to millions of Americans and then hit beneficiaries with demands for repayment to the tune of thousands of dollars.
A bipartisan letter sent by House members in the Ohio delegation presses Dr. Kilolo Kijakazi, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), for answers on its efforts to claw back overpayments from Americans, many of whom did nothing wrong. Those affected are elderly or disabled people on a fixed income who may have their benefits frozen or cut until their debt is paid off.
Rep. Mike Carey, R-Ohio, one of the lead authors, told Fox News Digital that for nearly a decade the Social Security Administration has hounded Americans impacted by errors made by the government as if they committed fraud on their end.
"Seniors and disabled Americans living on fixed incomes are not criminals, and they don’t deserve to be treated like criminals by the federal government over a mistake — and I can’t stress this enough — that is not their fault, but rather the result of a bureaucratic mistake on the part of the federal government," Carey said.
He shared that an Ohio constituent received a letter from the SSA in December 2021 saying their retiree benefits were miscalculated.
"That constituent not only started receiving more money monthly, but the Social Security Administration sent them a check to cover what was retroactively owed through 2017," said Carey. "Then in August of this year, that constituent received a letter from the Social Security Administration saying that the initial miscalculation of their benefits was wrong. This constituent was told they now owed the Social Security Administration more than $7,500 in overpaid benefits, and they had only 30 days to pay it..."
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When the Army overpaid me I didn’t know it until payday when I didn’t get a check, they just didn’t pay me until it was paid back, which made it difficult for a newlywed with a non-working wife and off-base rent due, a car payment and food and utilities needed.
This was the old low-pay army and I don’t know how we survived, but I do remember it was terrible.
Another Hussein O'Biden appointee with revenge on her mind?
Whenever I got overpaid I knew it and didn’t spend the extra. I held it until they discovered it and took it back.
In my case, I had just finished jump school and because of an Army experiment was sent to a leg unit (9th Infantry Division) to train recruits straight from basic instead of sending them to AIT.
I kept getting jump pay which I thought was supposed to end after 90 days but it kept coming, I went to finance about it and was assured it was correct, I went to finance a few more times and every time was assured everything was correct, I finally assumed that there was some technical army reason related to why I was there to train the OJT guys instead of having been sent to the 82nd like I wanted, and then one day, all pay stopped.
In 1972 I needed every penny I could get to survive off base yet I had tried everything that I knew to make sure I wasn’t getting in a hole and the finance people were all 100% sure I wasn’t.
But billions in student debt were forgiven by this insidious administration from hell.
I doubt even hell has the ability to punish these evil people enough for their crimes against humanity.
Dr. Kilolo Kijakazi...
Oh! She’s a doctor?
Well, I should consult with her about the itching of ulnar ...
I had 23, days negative leave (emergency leave) accidentally converted to + 23 when I took a short. I saved that 46 days over the next 6 years for when they caught their error. On mustering out I was sure they’d get it back. But they never did. The error was on the DD224 from 1971 precomputers.
The days of appointees named "Robert McAllister" and "Ann Henderson" and the like are over, as long as a racist Rat is in the White House.
Same only a pension payment. I was told in advance what it would be, I stated it was double what it should be and had everything documented in emails in which they insisted they were right and I was wrong. 6 months later they told me they made a mistake and wanted the overpayments returned. It was in a bank savings account so no problem.
Folks should know what they are getting. The government is clueless.
My personal and political view is that NO politician and NO bureaucrat should receive anything beyond standard Social Security benefits. To enact that would severely yet clearly keep the career government serious about things.
That any politician or bureaucrat get 100sK in "retirement" is simple, old fashioned "rent seeking" in the classic sense of the word. And, as it is now being paid in part by increasing public debt, it is also "taxation without representation" for future generations.
Math is hard
Probably identifies as a doctor.
When they underpay you, they will do nothing to right the wrong.
Has only worked for left wing non-profits and the government.
They need the money for their Illegals
If the bureacracy makes the miscalculation the overpayment should come out of the budget of the bureaucrats.
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