Saturday, May 11, 2013

Government Waste: If you died before you were born, you may be one of the lucky ones who scored SS Benefits

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is likely paying benefits to dead people because of reporting glitches in the federal Death Master File, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found. 
The federal database, made up of nearly 100 million records of deceased people with Social Security numbers, is likely fraught with thousands of errors, the GAO concluded, following an investigation of the files. 
For example, the GAO identified almost 1,300 records of people whose recorded age of death was between 111 and 129, and nearly 1,800 records showing people who received Social Security numbers before the government began using them. 
In 130 cases, people were listed as dying before they were born, the GAO found.
The errors were highlighted Wednesday at a congressional hearing on improper government payments across several benefit programs. In 2012 alone, improper federal payments totaled almost $108 million, according to an estimate from the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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