A budget proposal released by the White House Thursday would seek tens of billions in savings through cracking down on improper payments for Social Security ...
The budget framework proposes $759 billion [they meant to say million, not billion] for efforts to find Social Security overpayments, and the White House estimates that the federal government could save a whopping $12.1 billion over five years by making sure that only eligible people receive Social Security payments.
Mar 1, 2009
The Obama Budget And Reducing Waste At Social Security
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The next question: what will they do about the ongoing efforts to pay the backlog down?
Oh boy, more CDR's. Maybe they will change the term back to CDI's! Kick all those ineligibles off the rolls. And more thorough and aggressive SSI redeterminations. Catch all that octogenarian fraud! So what if virtually none of these paper overpayments are collectible. The more overpayments caused, the higher the merit pay. That's the way it worked the last time around.
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