What about the dead people fraud?
They better put asses in jail
In many cases, the overpayments were the fault of SSA
No!!’/s
Slackers and fraudsters to jail time. Then rehire with check and balance, these days a caveman could do the checking and balancing, and also stop these lingering computer entries from voting?
I’m pretty sure the Medicare healthcare providers already have dibs on your money.
How does this happen? Also, the illegals and relatives who come here and work a year or so and collect SS, some even moving back to their own country.
so they’re “required by law” to claw back the money, but they just on a whim decided not to because of “outcry” from the people who were having their money clawed back?
There is a serious problem in these bureaucracies...
But whenever Trump does something out of the ordinary, even if it’s legal, they immediately run to an obama judge to thwart him.
The timing of the announcement, right after Trump takes office, shifts blame onto the new administration, even though the policy is a return to a prior practice.
Given that the SSA knew this policy would provoke outrage, and the media has amplified stories of retirees facing massive repayment demands, it appears the narrative is being shaped to maximize fear.
If this is politically motivated, it’s a classic bureaucratic tactic—using a technical policy shift to generate outrage.
Regardless of intent, the rollout of this policy is fueling public fear at a time when trust in government agencies is already low.
The Democrats and their media jackals will scream these are cuts to Social Security. This tactic has always worked in the past for them to bludgeon Republicans. We’re in a new era now, so it may not work this time.
Why is is a ‘shock bill’ when they were STEALING their DEAD PARENTS” MONEY.
We had an overdose of “circle back.” Now it’s an overdose of “clawing back.”
Effective immediately if you get overpaid they could claw back 100%. Those in the past who have been overpaid will only have the maximum of 10% taken out of their check.
Why not hold the bureaucrats who made the over payments responsible?
We got hit with this a couple of years ago. In our case, the withholding of Social Security benefits had to do with the SSA’s announcement, with no warning, that I had underpaid on Medicare premiums, so it was going to withhold 100% of my SS benefits through March of the next year, starting immediately.
The issue had to do with my wife’s conversion, on the advice of her financial planner, of a portion of a regular IRA to a Roth IRA. This creates a one time tax event, with an adjustment not only to our income tax bracket but to my Medicare premium. (She was not yet on Medicare.) As you may know, both SS benefits and Medicare premiums are heavily means tested; these are camouflaged old age wefare programs, and we have no ownership rights.
The “rich people’s penalty box” premiums on Medicare are quite high. So: a one time IRA to Roth conversion, executed a couple of years prior, changed our adjusted gross income for income tax purposes for the year in which it was done, which triggered a 100 percent withholding of my SS benefits when the SSA’s calculations were done. This of course lags the income tax filing by a year or two because this is government and it feels entitled to recalculate things retroactively.
We are financially comfortable enough to roll with that kind of punch, but it was enough to put a dint in the cash flow, like taking your car in for routine servicing and walking out with an unexpected $2,500 repair bill. Three months in a row.
This bothers me. These are overpayments. Shouldn’t be spent by the recipients, unless the recipient is intentionally trying to get away with keeping the extra money. So any “hardship” proves they tried to defraud us.
I got one for a little over a thousand. I think it was from checks sent after my father died when I was 18. At the time I just cashed the checks and didn’t really care about where they came from. Oh well.
and no one has been arrested yet in any of it...
First, track down whose living people’s accounts received deposits in the name of dead people. “Claw back” THAT money!!!
The clawback is wrong. SS screwed up it’s on them. I’ve got a friend they tried to hit up for overpayment to her mother, who’d been DEAD for 10 years. Do a better job of sending money out, and don’t hassle people for money you shouldn’t have paid to their dead relative.
From a purely political lens, this is a very dangerous policy to roll out now unless the goal is to get seniors, the disabled, and their close families hating and fearing Trump and give the dems new life.
Social Security says it will restart clawing back 100% of overpayments to beneficiaries.
Illegals doing a lot of self deporting soon.