The Treasury Department recovered more than $31 million in Social Security payments made to dead people due to a five-month ...

Ever since the U.S. Social Security Administration opened its books to the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal ...

In a groundbreaking initiative, the U.S. Treasury Department has successfully recovered over $31 million in Social Security ...

Behind those numbers, reports of improper payments have helped fuel calls for reforms. The Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration (SSA) said that the agency ...

"Fraud is fairly uncommon in Social Security programs. In 2016, improper payments only accounted for a fraction of all benefits paid, and not all of those improper payments involved fraud ...

Between 2015 and 2022, the Social Security Administration made almost $72 billion in improper payments (mostly overpayments), according to the program’s Office of the Inspector General.

According to HHS-OIG, these arrangements often involve improper payments and referrals that can mislead Medicare enrollees into selecting plans or providers that may not meet their needs.

“All of these improper payments are also on the table.” “Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, you got to look at all that,” Norman told TPM when asked about the DOGE agenda. “Farm ...

Cracking down on improper payments and reforming health ... and is funded through a payroll tax, taxes on Social Security benefits and premiums paid by Medicare enrollees. But the single largest ...

Respondents described improper adjustments in benefit amounts and overpayment notices, and months of trying to contact the Social Security to ... and duration of payments. In most cases, though ...

The $7.4 billion figure represents Social Security disability fraud specifically, or improper payments, which are defined as payment miscalculations, neglecting available information, or not ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian was elected in July on a platform of social reforms ... workers have been protesting over delayed or reduced payments. Iran’s currency—a bellwether of economic ...