Blog: Social Security paid a billion dollars to people with no SS numbers

Samfund dør under socialistisk skødesløshed og ligegyldighed Here's a tale of government waste involving all the usual suspects: incompetence, ind...

Karen Kluxen,

24/02/2017

Samfund dør under socialistisk skødesløshed og ligegyldighed

Here's a tale of government waste involving all the usual suspects: incompetence, indifference, and laziness.

The inspector general for the Social Security Administration discovered that a billion dollars in benefits was paid to people who had no Social Security numbers.  The benefits were paid to "representative payees" – people who were accepting benefit checks on behalf of another because the beneficiary was unable to manage his Social Security payments by himself.