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Monday, May 06, 2013

$7.9 Billion in Improper Social Security Payments in FY 2012

The Social Security Administration (SSA) needs to focus on "program integrity," a polite term for reducing fraud and payment errors, the agency's inspector general told Congress last week.

Reducing improper payments is one of the challenges facing the next SSA commissioner, Patrick O'Carroll, Jr., the agency's inspector general, told the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security on April 26.

In fiscal year 2012, the Social Security Administration reported $4.7 billion in improper payments in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, a 9.2 percent improper payment rate. (SSI is funded by general tax revenues, not payroll taxes. It helps elderly, blind, and/or disabled people who are poor.)
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 6, 2013 at 3:40 PM

    wow 8 billion for deadbeats ..wtf..this along with all the other billions in WASTE AND THEFT...is the reason we are broke...

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  2. AnonymousMay 7, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Check the S.S. employees , they are crooked also. I over-heard one of them talking to another person about giving them disability ,they said it's easy , just ask to see me .

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  3. AnonymousMay 7, 2013 at 2:51 PM

    just another reason to scrap Obomacare.

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