Gov't paid $600 million in benefits to dead people
Gov't paid $600 million in benefits to dead people
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press
The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.
Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported, according to the report this week from the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general, Patrick McFarland.
In one case, the son of a beneficiary continued receiving payments for 37 years after his father's death in 1971. The payments - totaling more than $515,000 - were only discovered when the son died in 2008.
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Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on September 25, 2011 at 10:43pm
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That is totally Bizzare!! Isn't the death certificate sent to the government by the Coroner's Office. This would be for tax purposes. These must be very unusal circumstanstances! Like some one found dead in their bed and not reported. "The Paper Trail" stops right there. The dead person is buried on a farm; perhaps, and life goes on. Back in 1971 it wasn't as strict as it is now. People were even assuming the identity of dead people (getting a new life for themselves). And no one is the wiser. Obviously the I.R.S. or Revenue Canada wasn't notified. With computers now, it is virtually impossible to take on someones Identity because the tax department has gotten to damned smart. However, like Children's Aid, people do fall through the cracks... it happens all the time.
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Comment by Jaya Madhava das aka M.J. Koval on September 25, 2011 at 7:22pm
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GIVES ALL NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE
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ONE EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT WASTE
A DIRTY LITTLE SECRET,,,,STILL GOING ON IN WASHINGTON DC
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