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Friday, April 11, 2014

A MUST READ ARTICLE: Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts

A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government — a very old debt.

When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Mary’s money, rather than her surviving siblings’, is a mystery.

3 comments:

Stu Stinchfield said...

People are being convicted of an offense with out any proof no hearing no nothing.Obama's corrupt administration just keeps getting worse.It's hard to belive it is actually americans commiting these crimes against american citizens. This is what the founding fathers were concerned about,a federal government that does as it wants and is not being held accountable to the american people.A day of reckoning is coming I just hope I'm around to see it.

Anonymous said...

I bet Mary is a registered Republican being targeted by Obama's I.R.S.
5:01, I hope I'm around to dish it out and take out a few Communist Obama types!

Anonymous said...

We are NEVER responsible for our family's debts unless it's an account jointly held.
I refuse to pay hubby's medical bills. He's never paid for any medical insurance for me. Why should I.
I question this "right" to withhold funds due.