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Mikulski, Boxer Urge SSA Not to Penalize Taxpayers for Decades-Old Social Security Overpayments
U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today called on the Social Security Administration to end the policy of seizing taxpayers’ refunds to hold them accountable for decades-old errors made by the agency that led to the overpayment of benefits. The Senators highlighted a story on the front page of the Washington Post this morning that detailed the case of Mary Grice of Takoma Park, Maryland, whose tax refund was seized by the U.S. government to repay an overpayment of benefits made to an unknown member of her family in 1977. Read more…
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