Posted on 03/28/2022 7:09:51 AM PDT by george76
A new report released from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) showed that the Internal Revenue Service failed to correct issues found in earlier pandemic benefit programs and ended up sending Recovery Rebate Credit payments to deceased or otherwise ineligible individuals in the latest round of aid resulting from the American Rescue Plan.
According to the TIGTA's final audit report issued last week, "the IRS issued more than 1.2 million payments totaling $1.9 billion to potentially ineligible individuals," and blamed the improper payments on "deficiencies TIGTA previously reported based on its review of the IRS’s implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Economic Impact Payments that the IRS did not address."
So, the IRS knew of problems that resulted in CARES Act funds being wasted, but the IRS didn't address or fix those issues, so more of the same wasteful problems reoccurred when American Rescue Plan benefits were distributed. Classic bureaucracy.
A table in the audit shows where the improper benefits were distributed, including:
9,592 payments to deceased individuals totaling $13 million 60,824 payments made due to a "programming error" to the tune of $109 million 342,173 payments sent to nonresidents at a cost of $579 million In terms of the payments to individuals who were deceased before the benefits were distributed, TIGTA noted that some of the payments were automatically returned or failed to be processed due to the intended receipient no longer being alive. But more than 18,000 payments totaling more than $25 million were apparently processed for those who were no longer living.
The audit notes that "the IRS generally does not have the authority to recover ARPA advance RRC payments that were issued in error." Swell.
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Not only did the funds go where they weren't supposed to, the benefits also didn't make it to Americans who were supposed to receive aid from the law. As the audit explains, "TIGTA also identified 644,705 potentially eligible individuals who had not received payments totaling $1.6 billion."
As TIGTA pointed out, similar issues led to criticism of the IRS' distribution of CARES Act benefits. "In May 2021, we reported that some EIPs were sent to potentially ineligible individuals. Specifically, as of July 16, 2020, the IRS had issued more than 4.4 million EIPs totaling nearly $5.5 billion to potentially ineligible individuals." That report on earlier COVID "relief" found that 2,174,616 payments were made to people who were deceased to the tune of $3.5 billion.
Damn, I wish I got one of those ....
Just one more reason to scrap the income tax and abolish the IRS.
EVERYTHING is computerized and yet they want to hire 80,000 new agents to harass American citizens!
FJB!
Both of my parents passed away between 2020 and 2022 and they only received one of Brandon’s reparation checks. Yet, I get a letter from the IRS last week wondering why they didn’t sign their tax return.
Probably used Dominion system for mail out’s
Yeah, correlates payments to registered democrats.
He only sent one. Trump sent us two.
Dumbass government giveaways that’s how...
Dead or alive
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9,592 payments to deceased individuals totaling $13 million . . . But more than 18,000 payments totaling more than $25 million were apparently processed for those who were no longer living.
What is the difference? Is the actual number 18,000 or 27,592?
Wonder how many congressmen and senators have John Doe P.O. boxes?.
They would never do that huh.
Dead, huh? If they can vote, they can receive benefits.
wy69
The one he sent was the rest of the pay out Trump wanted to send but the RINOs blocked.🙄
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