SSA has 6.5 million social security numbers for people over 112. The fact that there are only 35 people that old in the whole world should have been a clue that they’re getting scammed… but hey, this is the government we’re talking about.
SSA has over six million social security numbers for people over 112
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Interesting follow-up -- seems the Obama administration has been refusing to prosecute illegal aliens caught using dead people's SS numbers:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/us-declined-to-prosecute-illegals-using-dead-people-ssns
If he did prosecute them, then he would be keeping millions of illegals from voting Democrat.
I read yesterday that Illegal Aliens were using tons of SS numbers from the dearly departed, so Shirley McClain is right! I am going to come back as Jose Martinez..
Pretty much! Its very common here in SA, TEXAS.
You know Obama Care isn't keeping them alive.
sure would like to know where that money is being funneled, pretty amazing the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted each year by career bureaucrats or used to pay off political support and of course insure their future millions, Yet each year there is a need to rise taxes because of our ever increasing debt. Time most of these politicians went to jail, starting in the white house!
And Ss screws the current recipients. Average Ss check is around $1000 a month. If that is the only income, they MAY qualify for $10 a month in food stamps. No qualification for housing at all.
Another 6.5 million cases of people collecting their parent's checks after they died!
Well, to be clear, the inspector general isn't saying 6.5 million people that old are collecting checks. They're saying that many numbers are currently assigned to people listed as being that old. Many of them are being used, apparently, by people much younger which suggests identity theft -- if you're an illegal alien, you watch the obituaries and when an old man dies you raid his mailbox, get his SS#, and give it to your employer. Voila! you're a legal employee. They did find a couple hundred people over 112 collecting benefits, so those are almost certainly fraudulent collections -- like you said, people cashing their parents' checks.
You would think, at some point, someone at SSA, in between mandated coffee breaks, would have said, "Hey, we need to start figuring out why so many numbers aren't being retired properly because there CANNOT be this many people over 112."
I used to watch my former landlord race to the mailbox on the 3rd of the month, every month, to retrieve her dead mother's SS check. How do I know? Because one time I got to the mailbox before her.
Yes, I would hope. No, I would have hoped 10 years ago. I have given up hope now. I filed a form they sent me sometime around Christmas to decline Medicare part B. I let it sit around for awhile and finally sent it in. Last week I got a computer generated form letter informing me that they were going to start deducting $xxx from my April ss payment to pay for medicare part B. I made a WTF phone call on Monday (last week) morning. After 30 minutes a woman answered and explained it takes them FOUR WEEKS to process that form. It's a simple data entry event. Open envelope, read form, punch yes or no. That takes them four freezing WEEKS. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Do you remember the IRS people in the Cincinnati office whose supervisor told them they couldn't go home at night until their desks were clear? About a year after he issued that order, they found out employees were simply shoveling unopened tax returns into their waste baskets so they could go home at regular quitting time. We will never know how many thousands of tax returns were lost forever.
It's the government.
Yes. Most SSA applicants arecrejected on the first try. They go get attorneys to push the paperwork through, and if theybare successful, the attorney gets a big chunk of the initial payment.
That's pretty fast. People who are determined disabled, unable to work wait over a year for benefits to be approved. And they cannot work atall duing that time. That is for obvious, clear cut cases. If your case is iffy at all (back pain, mental disorder, etc) the wait can be much longer.