A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison. The Social Security Administration’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 million went to 72,000 people who were dead. The report estimates that a little more than half the payments were returned.The report said $4.3 million went to a little more than 17,000 prison inmates.
The payments were part of the government’s massive economic recovery package enacted in February 2009. Under the law, the $250 payments were sent to about 52 million Social Security recipients and federal retirees.
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Just like TARP money went to non-existant Congressional Districts. We have a system that’s either pervasively corrupt or hopelessly incompetent.
89,000 out of 52 million is an error of less than one fifth of one percent with more than half being returned. I wish my company could be that efficient.99.975+ %
Why shouldn’t they have gotten payment the dead also voted in the 2008 presidential election.
I’m (practically) dead and I didn’t get a check. Is it to late to apply?