Screwup In Nebraska

From the Lincoln Journal Star:

About 7,400 Medicare beneficiaries in Nebraska can request a waiver of a recent decision that two months Part B premium arrearages would be withheld from their September Social Security check.

This situation arose when an incorrect list from the State of Nebraska was sent to Social Security identifying more than 9,500 Part B beneficiaries for whom the State of Nebraska was going to pay their Medicare Part B premiums beginning April 2008. ...

Each beneficiary received a refund of several months Medicare Part B premiums. After the list was corrected, beneficiaries were told that the overpayments created by this erroneous list would be collected from the benefit they will receive in September.

To request a waiver of the overpayment, beneficiaries should contact Social Security ...

Interesting that they are treating this as an overpayment subject to waiver.