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Stimulus Payments Surface as Another Factor in the “Clawback” Debacle
Amid rhetoric and Congressional oversight reviews of the Social Security Administration’s movement to recover benefit overpayments amounting to more than $26 billion, there’s a new wrinkle. Reports are surfacing of beneficiaries receiving letters requesting repayment of benefits caused by misunderstanding–or misapplication–of the rules on how the 2020 and 2021 Economic Impact Payments (a.k.a., “stimulus payments”) affected the accounting of income levels for SSI recipients. Madison Carter, wsoctv.com Reporter, takes a look at the issue in a post on their website, which you can access here.