Chauncey Clinton, 65, of Ross Township was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges he cashed his late mother’s social security checks for nearly four decades.
Clara Clinton died in May, 1973, and Clinton allegedly began cashing her checks the very next month. ...
Clinton allegedly received more than $300,000 he was not entitled to through the social security scam involving his late mother.
There should be a "fail safe" check for people over 65. Something tells me me if they look at her Medicare, there would be zero use for 30+ years. Anybody know many people over 65 that NEVER visit the doctor? However, a check like that probably boils down to manpower and budget of which SSA is in short supply.
ReplyDeletethe government should literally take the house and every possession in his name. how much you wanna bet this clown has been getting SSI the entire time as well? You can't make this stuff up...
ReplyDeleteMove along, nothing to see here. Just the right wing trying to show fraud by someone who made an honest mistake and should be forgiven. ;>)
ReplyDeleteSorry guys. SSA deserves the blame on this one, especially the local field office no matter how busy it is. There are plenty of checks already in place to detect this type of fraud. Somebody wasn't doing their job, not because they didn't have time, but because they chose not to do it.
ReplyDeletePure ignorance at its best!!!
DeleteAnd how is this the local field office fault? What checks are in place to detect this?
ReplyDeleteAnon 4:21PM:
ReplyDeletePlease, using your infinite wisdom and absolute knowledge of SSA programs, please enlighten us how the local field office could have caught this?
I've worked 23 years in a field office. I can guarantee you that we have no such tools or checks accessible to the local offices. Heck, we get fraud reports all the time that we can't investigate because we don't have access to the names of people receiving benefits in our areas of jurisdiction.
Most of the time, these cases are caught through Medicare non-useage checks or address/bank SNAFUs that catch up the criminals.
Still waiting, Anonymous 4:21PM . . . .