[thinkthenpost]

I agree but it really isn’t relevant to this conversation.

I wrote if you were overpaid by the government and the over payment was not because of fraud on your part, AND you largely or completely rely on Social Security to survive.
That, in my opinion the claw back should not be more than half your monthly benefit payment until the over payment amount has been returned to the government.

You seem to think I am advocating for a means test of what you should receive, I am not.
The scenario I am referring to is limited to when the government has paid you more then you ought to be receiving and how the federal government is going to get that extra money back.

[Myrddin]

Clarification noted. I understand the problem of being "overpaid". I was burning PTO while being treated for cancer. I applied for short term disability. It was authorized and I was paid disability for some of the days that I took PTO. The claim was that I was overpaid. I was not. I earned the PTO and it was debited from my PTO hours accrual. I had the option to "buy back" the PTO hours that were paid. In the end, it was too much trouble to do the paperwork for me and my employer. The "buy back" would have been accomplished by reducing future paychecks. The payroll office was perplexed and the time card software system was too inflexible to implement the "policy". The company did steal 32 hours from me and had no means of making that right.

I understand the impact on parties who rely solely on social security income to have a hard claw back wiping out their income stream.