The Wall Street Journal is running a story on a report by Social Security’s Office of Inspector General concerning payment of benefits to 1,546 people listed in the Death Master File as dead.
It’s funny. I had seen the same report and thought it showed that on the whole Social Security was doing a good job. I thought about posting about the report but decided that it wasn’t of any
From Inside NOVA, which, I think, stands for Northern Virginia:
A former Woodbridge woman was sentenced Friday
to one day in prison, plus three years of supervised release, for
committing Social Security fraud by helping her husband claim he was
dead. …
According to documents on file at U.S. District Court in Alexandria,
Rios’ husband, Luis Melecio Rios Guizado, was wanted on
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has scheduled a hearing for June 27 at 9:30 a.m. on Oversight of Rising Social Security Disability Claims and the Role of Administrative Law Judges. This is supposed to be the first of a series of hearings on this subject. In advance of the hearing, there is an Associated Press piece saying that Social Security’s Administrative Law
I received this e-mail from Social Security today, probably because I have set up a MySSA account:
Affordable
Health Care
Need health insurance or know
someone who does? Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more Americans now qualify
to get coverage that fits their needs and budgets. Visit the Health Insurance
Marketplace at www.HealthCare.gov or
call 1-800-318-2596 to get more
