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Mexican workers who paid into Social Security in the United States will be refunded their contributions when they return to their homeland

I imagine that the possibilities for fraud with this scheme are limitless.

[Southack]

"I imagine that the possibilities for fraud with this scheme are limitless."

Imagination is a wonderful thing.

[AuntB]

"I imagine that the possibilities for fraud with this scheme are limitless."

The Social Security Administration can't screen citizens, I can't wait to see this fiasco. Here's what the SSA wasted on people who were not qualified to recieve disability benefits...billions!
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Total Overpayment Debt Is Increasing (1999-2003)
Dollars in millions 3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Year

Source: GAO analysis based on SSA data.

www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-04-929.

Third, the agency relies on potentially inaccurate management information
to effectively monitor and oversee some parts of this workload. These weaknesses contributed to some work CDR cases GAO identified that were as much as 7 years old, resulting in potential and established overpayments as large as $105,000 per beneficiary. In addition, GAO found that SSA
relies on potentially inaccurate management information to administer its....`snip`