FREE BEACON: Social Security Paid Dead Government Workers $1.7 Million

Agency says payments are an 'extremely small number'

 

AP

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
August 30, 2016 12:10 pm
The Social Security Administration has paid dead federal workers $1.7 million in recent years, with the deceased receiving benefits an average of seven years after their death, according to an agency watchdog.
An audit released by the agency’s inspector general Monday revealed that the Social Security Administration had not crosschecked beneficiaries’ deaths with the Office of Personnel Management, which manages federal employees.
Missing just 35 deaths cost taxpayers $1.7 million.

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