Jan 31, 2006

Duplicate Social Security Checks Sent

The Social Security Administration has issued an emergency message instructing its staff on handling a mistake made by the Department of the Treasury's Austin Financial Center. It seems that 485 duplicate Social Security benefit checks were released on January 18. Apparently, all of the checks were to claimants for regular monthly benefits.
The mistake happened in a transition to using white envelopes instead of brown for benefit checks. The change was not supposed to have been made until February but someone jumped the gun and prepared 485 checks using the white envelopes. The mistake was caught and the checks were prepared again using brown envelopes, but someone forgot to destroy the checks in the white envelopes and both sets of checks were mailed.

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