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Posted: Feb 22, 2017

The Social Security Administration paid $1 billion in benefits to individuals who did not have a Social Security Number (SSN), according to a new audit. The agency’s inspector general found errors in the government’s documentation for representative payees, otherwise known as individuals who receive retirement or disability payments on behalf of another person who is incapable of managing the benefits themselves. The audit released Friday found thousands of cases where there was no SSN on file. Over the last decade, the agency paid $1 billion to 22,426 representative payees who "did not have an SSN, and SSA had not followed its policy to retain the paper application." “Furthermore, unless it takes corrective action, we estimate SSA will pay about $182.5 million in benefits, annually, to representative payees who do not have an SSN or paper application supporting their selection,” the inspector general said. The inspector general also found the agency paid $853.1 million in benefits since 2004 to individuals who had been terminated as representative payees by the agency. The inspector general said the errors occurred because the agency did not keep paper applications supporting an individual’s case to receive benefits on behalf of another and did not update its system if their status was terminated. Only six percent of representative payees had SSNs that were properly recorded, based on the audit’s sample of 100 beneficiaries. Government benefits are also going to illegal aliens through the representative payee system. 17 percent of representative payees in the sample did not have an SSN recorded because they were undocumented noncitizens, the inspector general said. Illegal aliens without SSNs are allowed to receive benefits from the government when acting as representatives for their minor children. In response to the audit, the SSA said it switched to a new Electronic Representative Payee System last year, and transferring representative payee information “may have resulted in applications showing as terminated or not selected.” The government defended the issuance of benefits to noncitizens and persons without an SSN. “Representative payees play a significant role in many beneficiaries’ lives,” the SSA said. “We have approximately 5.7 million representative payees managing annual benefits for approximately 8 million beneficiaries. When appointing representative payees, we adhere to guidance in the Social Security Act (the Act).” “Specific to this audit, the Act permits us to appoint, in certain circumstances, an undocumented alien, or applicant who resides outside the United States without a Social Security number (SSN) to serve as payee,” the agency said. “Specifically, the Act states we should verify a person’s SSN (or employer identification number) in our investigation of the payee applicant. However, the Act does not state that the applicant must have an SSN to serve as a payee.” The “absence of an SSN is not a criterion preventing an individual from serving as payee,” the agency added. ;

This money could be used to build the wall. - MAGA!

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The estimated cost of the wall - Resist

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is 21 billion. Get your wallet out.

Hmm, $21 billion? Weren't there recent....sm - VTMT

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complaints non-stop about our national debt under Obama having reached $9 billion? A mere pittance! In addition, we all know estimates usually end up being double or more of the original estimates. Much of the land along the border is privately owned and they don't want a fence dividing their property. There will be legal expenses, buy outs, or not. What a mess! The rich will get tax breaks and the rest of us will pay for all of it.

Exactly. This case is just one incident. A billion here and a billion there adds - up to real money. I suspect if ten

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people on this forum were given the task to balance the budget, and given the line item detail of the federal budget, within two weeks we could report a budget back with a surplus to start paying off the accumulated debt.

Trump needs to tell each of his cabinet department heads to submit a budget 20% lower than last year. Present it to Congress, demand passage, and live with it. Turn off the television so the whines of the liberal activists can’t be heard. One step to making America great again.

They can also claim the child tax credit. This is nothing more than - welfare and redistribution.

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I’m so sick of seeing anyone but American’s being favored.

Many times the minor children don't exist. The illegals - are getting money for children who are

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just simply listed as such.

A few billion went missing from HRC's state department, a billion - in SSN payouts, pretty

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soon you are talking abut real money.

In related backstory, did you know that many illegals work under false SSNs? Then, when it comes time to retire and collect, they claim and receive credit for their earnings under the false SSN?

Many times the SSN the illegal was using is that of their anchor baby or other close relative. They can cause much hassle for their family member. There is no standard way to handle these situations. It is every SSA employee for himself on these decisions.

If something like this can happen, - mt

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how can we be sure there is no voter fraud?

And yet they want to cut us seniors down in SS - livid

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For years and years, they have kept blaming seniors and the whole SS system for their mismanagement of money.

Therefore, they want to cut us down even after it was proven the government stole our money in the past.

Makes me mad that illegals are getting what is due legal American, most born here years and years ago and come from long lines of people from the 1700s on to present.

Why don't we take some of the Congress' salaries to make up for all the years they stole from us and what the illegals have taken from our fund.

This is as bad as the Veteran's mess.

How many vets could be seen for $1 billion? - This is so wrong.

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