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
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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