MarketWatch has a piece that’s more remarkable for its headline than its content: Dead people claiming Social Security? Here’s one — but we’re still looking for the other 19,999,999.
MarketWatch has a piece that’s more remarkable for its headline than its content: Dead people claiming Social Security? Here’s one — but we’re still looking for the other 19,999,999.
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We used to send $255, mostly to undertakers, and that runed up a loy of dead folks.
This administration likes to pontificate on issues to grab headlines but at the end it’s all bluster. Counting the days off until midterms.
Not that hard. There’s prosecutions all the time
I think they only show up when Elon is in the Ketamine hole or when Trump is sundowning
There are a couple each year. That’s a far cry from the tens of millions Elon and Dementia Don cited. And they have nothing to do with any sort of negligence or misconduct on the part of SSA, as both idiots also implied.
there's still a $255 death benefit. If it were bigger, maybe a few more folks would report deaths, but with states and CMS doing so much reporting, I really don't think there are many people dying without SSA knowing about it. The bigger issue is that by law SSA pays benefits prospectively (what you get on June 1 assumes you live for all of June) so they are always going to overpay and need to claw it back. The overpayment rate would plummet if Congress said the benefit paid in a month is contingent on the person being alive on the first of that month.
Was my mom really in the casket? I need to have a talk with my brother!
My friend (a staunch republican....which I am definitely not) was throwing a fit about that. I TRIED to explain that's not the case, but trying to explain something to a MAGA brainwashed individual is completely useless. Still my friend, we just DO NOT talk about politics. We know better. So, when he brought this up, I had a few words, and he got mad....haven't got a text since, but he'll get over it.
@1:26 this is not true at all. SSA pays a person in June for being alive all of May.
There are not Social Security prosecutions all the time. The US attorneys have increased the monetary loss limits for their prosecutorial guidelines for Social Security fraud in most areas to the point where little actual Social Security fraud gets prosecuted anymore these days.
There is no favorable publicity in prosecuting grandma, so they don't bother.
Unless, of course, they think you did something as an illegal alien. Then, they are beating down the walls to arrest and prosecute you.
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