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Management
100% withholding on Social Security clawbacks scaled back by the Trump administration
The Biden administration had capped the clawbacks at 10%.
Oversight
Social Security clawbacks hit a million more people than the agency chief told Congress
At issue is the scope of a problem that has terrified many Social Security beneficiaries and plunged them into financial distress.
Oversight
In Congress, calls mount for Social Security to address clawbacks
The Social Security Administration routinely sends notices to beneficiaries saying they received benefits to which they weren’t entitled — and demanding they pay the government back, often within 30 days.
Oversight
A new Social Security report shows the growing overpayment problem tops $23b
For the past several years, the agency routinely distributed between $6 billion and $7 billion in new overpayments each year.
Management
Under fire, Social Security chief vows ‘top-to-bottom’ review of payment clawbacks
House members faulted the agency for issuing billions of dollars of payments in error and then, often much later, demanding that beneficiaries pay the money back.
Management
COVID relief payments triggered feds to demand money back from Social Security recipients
House and Senate members have called for action on problems at the Social Security Administration.
Oversight
Social Security overpayments draw scrutiny and outrage from members of Congress
SSA recovered $4.7 billion of overpayments during the 2022 fiscal year but ended that year with $21.6 billion of overpayments still uncollected, according to a November 2022 report by department’s inspector general.
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