Posted on 1/17/2025, 10:19:18 PM by ransomnote
[H/T bitt]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration ’s “Full Death Master File” for three years as part of the omnibus appropriations bill in 2021. The SSA maintains the most complete federal database of individuals who have died, and the file contains more than 142 million records, which go back to 1899, according to the Treasury.
The Treasury projects that it will recover more than $215 million during its three-year access period, which runs from December 2023 through 2026.
“These results are just the tip of the iceberg,” the Treasury’s Fiscal Assistant Secretary David Lebryk said in a news release.
Amazing! They clawed back my mother’s last SS payment the day she died. How’d they know?
US recovers $31 million in federal payments to dead people
APnews.com ^ | January 16, 2025 | FATIMA HUSSEIN
Posted on 1/17/2025, 10:19:18 PM by ransomnote
[H/T bitt]
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)