Day: June 25, 2013

Paying Money To Dead People

     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

An Original Type Of Fraud

     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