Thursday, December 20, 2012

SSI Overpaid Billions to the Disabled Poor

The federal government has overpaid billions of dollars in benefits to people who have been ruled disabled and impoverished, often because they understated their income. Debt because of over payments has doubled over the past decade to $7.3 billion, according to a new government report. 
And data reviewed by The Washington Times showed that the Social Security Administration (SSA) conducted fewer reassessments of claimants’ financial situations — which can detect such issues — last year than it did in every year prior to 2006, even as the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) rolls swelled from 5.8 million that year to 6.9 million. 
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Social Security bureaucrats have been lenient in recouping the money: When recipients request a waiver allowing them to keep the over payments, they are granted 76 percent of the time, with the excess funds chalked up as a loss and not included in the overall debt.
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2 comments:

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

Romney's proposal of block grants to the states could have gone a long way towards eliminating the enormous overpayments of SSI and other welfare benefits.

Ah, what might have been, what could have been, what should have been - the saddest words ever spoken.

Unknown said...

Over payments? Garbage, $710.00 a month is not even close to adequate, but then You'd know this if You got $710.00 a month, but since You do not, then You and Repubs in General who object to Supplemental Security Income going to Seniors and to Disabled People, think the amount is Lavish, try living on that amount and no more, then grow a conscience, cause it's barely adequate now. So You do not know what You are talking about, Romney(a Rich moron)/Ryans idea will never see the light of day thanks to demographics, but then 70% of people who get what is euphemistically called Welfare are White.