Social Security Administration struggling with disability insurance overpayments

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The SSA hasn’t been adjusting the benefits of people going back to work after having been unable to. The Social Security Administration is facing struggles with overpaying benefits to disability insurance beneficiaries. The coverage is meant to provide benefits when an individual’s disabilities stop them from working. However, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has not been adjusting disability insurance benefits for some people when they return the work. The result is that they risk being overpaid. As nice as that might sound, beneficiaries who are overpaid may have to repay…

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Disability insurance fraud crackdown underscores issues in program

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Federal authorities have discovered massive problems in the coverage plan for injured workers. A probe that has been continuing for two years, so far, has just led federal authorities to make 68 arrests in Puerto Rico, having to do with fraudulent claims on disability insurance. This, according to information from the U.S. Social Security Administration’s inspector general. The inspector general from the U.S. Social Security Administration has stated that prosecutors have now also charged a former Social Security employee as well as three doctors with having taken part in assisting…

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Disability insurance benefits are not awarded properly 1 out of 4 times

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A Senate report is showing that 25 percent of cases are potentially unnecessarily costing taxpayers millions. A new report from the Senate is showing that one quarter of disability insurance benefits awarded by the Social Security Administration were done improperly between the years 2006 and 2010, which could possibly have cost millions of dollars to taxpayers. The findings were the result of an investigation that was held over eighteen months. The research was performed by the chamber’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. What it discovered that approximately one out of every…

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