Yes, never you mind that bank and war looting.
"Social Security overpaid in 2009 by $4b, or 10%
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration made $6.5 billion in overpayments to people not entitled to receive them in 2009, including $4 billion under a supplemental income program for the very poor, a government investigator said yesterday.
In all, about 10 percent of the payments made by the agency’s Supplemental Security Income program were improper, said Patrick P. O’Carroll Jr., the inspector general for Social Security.
The program has strict limits on income and assets, and most of the overpayments went to people who did not report all their resources, O’Carroll said.
Gee, who would do that?
Error rates were much smaller for retirement, survivor, and disability benefits, which make up the overwhelming majority of Social Security payments, O’Carroll told a congressional panel....
So why the focus on.... never mind. Agenda push acknowledged and received.
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