Overpayments
Handling a Social Security Overpayment
There have been some recent changes to the way Social Security will handle an overpayment. The new rules are more customer service oriented. For example, instead of withholding your entire benefit amount, they will withhold 10%. Blake Stimac for CNET…
Social Security’s Over/Under Problem Hits a New Level
According to a post by moneywise reporter Chris Clark on finance.yahoo.com, Social Security’s cumulative tally of erroneous payments recently hit a milestone: $1 billion. The problem of incorrect payments is not new. It has been discussed in many media articles…
An Update on Social Security’s On-Going “Customer Service Crisis”
Calling the current state of affairs “not normal” and “not acceptable,” Social Security Commissioner late last week outlined the priorities his leadership is bringing to the Agency in the face of considerable criticism directed at procedures in place. These priorities,…
Four Key Moments from the Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Hearing on Improper Payments
WASHINGTON – With $16 billion in improper payments over the last five years, beneficiaries living on fixed incomes who rely on Social Security for their livelihood face challenging outcomes where they may receive less than they are owed or are overpaid…
“Clawback” Hearing Yields Pledge for a “Top-to-Bottom” Review of SSA policies

Acting SSA Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi, in response to concerns expressed in yesterday’s House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing, accepted accountability for the problem now affecting millions of Social Security beneficiaries, and noted that a team has been formed to investigate…
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…
Social Security’s Overpayment Problem to get Congressional Attention

The much-publicized effort by the Social Security Administration to recover more than $26 billion in payments mistakenly made to beneficiaries will be subjected to a hearing by the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee this week, according to a…