[Myrddin]

The social security benefit that you are entitled to receive should depend upon nothing more or less than what you paid into your "account" during your employed years. No other income should be taken into account to lower the benefit you are due as a consequence of your contributions.

[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.