Improper Use Of Paid Administrative Leave

From the Federal Times:

The Social Security Administration paid nearly $1.5 million in wages to 16 employees who were not working while facing misconduct or criminal charges, according to the agency's inspector general [IG].

In a report released July 29, the IG said that paid administrative leave is meant to be used on a limited basis, so agencies can give potentially dangerous or criminal employees a month's advance notice that they will be indefinitely suspended. But the IG's report said 16 SSA employees were paid for months of work they didn't do between October 2005 and January 2009.

The Washington Times has also picked up on this story.

I guess they will have to fire everybody who made this mistake. That is what they did when an Administrative Law Judge made a similar mistake.