1,700 prisoners mistakenly got payments of $250 each, most were returned
WASHINGTON - The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.
The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks.
Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren't incarcerated in any of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.
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6 comments:
i wanna know where my money is....oh thats right i work and hold a job i pay i dont get...silly me......plus im not in jail.....gain silly me.....
Reparations ! that's where !
Thats no worse then the state giving stimulous to pave us 13 in the princess anne area.When they just did it not to long ago.
Keep wasting that money!!!!!
If these people were eligible, then how could the Federal government be guilty of something More information from the mis information master.
To me, it's doubtful this was in error. It's buying votes, isn't it?
How do you think this money will be returned?
And these are the people who want to run our health care system.
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