Posted on 06/05/2015 12:18:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A government watchdog says Social Security overpaid disability beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion over the past decade.
Many payments went to people who earned too much money to qualify for benefits, or to people who weren’t disabled anymore. Some payments went to people who had died or to prison inmates. …
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I’d say that number is undershooting the mark...
Yea...THEY’LL handle Obamacare REAL good!
http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/news/rogers-disability-pay-to-be-restored-for-recipients/article_b15c588e-0b0f-11e5-b11f-03f8acdd2cb2.html
“Conn was the target of a 2013 U.S. Senate investigation that concluded he schemed with doctors and a judge to push dubious disability claims through the system.
Conn has not been charged with any crime...”
SS fraud isn’t a crime: it’s an opportunity!
Our government is so screwed up. SS 14B....the Pentagon 7 trillion.
One of these days it will be real money.
Why is the federal government always crying about SS going broke but never about welfare, foo stamps, subsidized housing or Medicaid?
Why not? You can still vote democrat when you're dead plus you can't get any more "disabled" than being dead.
It did not go to anyone who had died, it went to whomever was cashing their benefit or transferring out money from their account to themselves. People like that should be melted down with flamethrowers as an incentive for others not to do this.
Oh Yeah lets get the money back that should work.
And, when there’s no social security $ for you, you’ll know why.
All on our kids and grandkids credit card.
Ya don’t say??? Calling Binder and Binder - they’ve been really quiet lately.
the new paradigm: work for others so others don't have to...
[[Study: Social Security overpaid disability benefits by $17B]]
Our government has spent more than 200 billion on ILLEGALS per year-
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