From some television station in Arizona:
Mary Jo Kavanaugh has a small home-based business where she does alterations. And, while Kavanaugh enjoys sewing, it's her finances that might be coming apart at the seams. That's because Kavanaugh recently retrieved a letter from the Social Security Administration, demanding that she pay a hefty sum of money. ...
The SSA wants Kavanaugh to immediately repay more than $28,000. Why? Well, the agency says it mistakenly overpaid her ex-husband, who was collecting disability. ...
"We were divorced in 2006," said Kavanaugh.
That divorce date is important because according to the letter, the Social Security Administration overpaid her ex-husband $28,116.44 between June 2009 through March 2013. ...
We asked [Social Security] to investigate the issue and once they did, Kavanaugh says she got a phone call from Social Security saying the matter has been dropped and they will not be pursuing her for $28,000 any longer. ...
Sounds like a simple waiver against equity and good conscience since they were divorced and presumably not in the same household when the overpayment occurred, something not always obvious when an overpayment is transferred from a wage earner to someone receiving benefits on their record.
ReplyDeleteSee example 3: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/20/404.509
mic drop for 11:43
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ReplyDeleteThere is still an unresolved problem of responsibility for overpayments on a record when you neither caused or really received the money. I'm working on one now for a child who was overpaid because a disabled brother should have drawn on the same record. The disabled child was already drawing SSI. Obviously, the father and the social security person should have caught this when he set up his children for payment on his record.
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