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Social Security needs to take corrective action to reduce overpayments
An overpayment is messy. It results when either the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) makes a mistake or when a claimant fails to notify the SSA about income or resources. Either way it is messy. The SSA then takes action to recover the over payment. Usually they wait too long and by the time the SSA requests it, they are claiming that the claimant owes thousands of dollars. Usually claimants do not have the money to pay it back and attorneys are reluctant to take a case because there is not a way for the claimant to pay the overpayment, much less an attorney. Read more…