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   Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:12 JST Paul Chambers🚧

   18/ Social Security to begin withholding 100% of benefits again for agency fault overpayments as Trump reinstates plan to recover 100% of overpayments, until the overpayment is made up

   #SocialSecurity is bringing back a controversial plan to fix its mistakes by withholding people's benefits. The agency had just sought 10% of funds it accidentally overpaid. Now it wants 100% repaid.

   That's a reversal of a change to withhold only 10% of a recipient's benefits in event of an overpayment to reduce "financial hardship on people with overpayments. In the past, people lost their homes as benefits were cut off to make up an overpayment. #USPol #SSA .

   https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/08/social-security-overpayments-march-2025/82049805007/

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:11 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     20/ DOGE and Social Security declared a living man dead, robbed his bank account to claw back "erroneous" payments because he was dead — Man is still waiting on it to be fixed because of short staffing.

     I think another lesson here is, if you collect Social Security, move your deposit to another account as soon as possible.

     From the article:

     Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam.
     “We recently received notification of LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s passing,” it began. “We offer our sincerest condolences …”

     At first she figured it was a scam — her husband, after all, was sitting right there. But then the bank got to the point.

     “We know this is a difficult time, and we’re here to help,” the bank wrote.

     “We received a request from Social Security Administration to return benefits paid to LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account after their passing.”

     “There’s nothing you need to do — we’ve deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account.”

     🔗 Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say

     https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

     :webarch: https://archive.ph/ssEdM
     #SocialSecurity #USPol

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:12 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     19/ JFC moment. A short read of a court filing regarding #SocialSecurity data and doge and the delicate nature of the data, how the current commissioner got put in and a lot of bells and whistles. #USPol
     It's been reported on in the press, but read this short, double spaced court filing.

     Ex-Social Security official describes ‘significant’ risk of sensitive data going to wrong hands under DOGE, handled based on three myths.

     https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.22.10.pdf

     h/t @tiamat271

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:08:18 JST GNU Too

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
     @GreenSkyOverMe yes, never take direct deposit from the government, always request a paper check. Direct deposit gives them a lot more rights to your money.