The payments, comprising less than 1% of total benefits paid, were mostly overpayments made from fiscal years 2015 through 2022. The SSA recently eased the rules around recovering overpayments to ...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has said it is dealing with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has caused ...
A new watchdog report says hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are lost each year due to federal mistakes.
The improper payments consisted of beneficiaries not being paid enough of their benefits as well as being overpaid. The Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General found that ...
(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new ...
Social Security and Medicare are important safety nets for millions of Americans. Trump and Harris are likely to continue ...
Social Security’s SSI program and the IRS’s Earned Income Tax Credit program are among those subject to the new federal fraud scorecard.
A record number of 5.2 million Social Security “pending action” claims have led to approximately $1.1 billion in improper payments to beneficiaries as of February 2024. The improper payments ...