Social Security Paid Disability Insurance To 30,000 People Who Had Jobs

The payments took place over a two-year period ending January 2013. The Government Accountability Office says the payments amounted to $1.3 billion. Both GAO and Social Security say the numbers amount to less than 1 percent of beneficiaries, and of dollars. But the GAO says the potential improper payments indicate weaknesses in Social Security's procedures for policing the disability system. A Social Security spokesman says the agency will investigate potential fraud cases and turn them over to its inspector general.