Watchdog report: Social Security Administration paid $38 million to dead veterans
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Social Security Administration paid out nearly $38 million to veterans that were already dead, according to an Inspector General report released last week. The Inspector General for the SSA found a systematic problem in which the SSA continues to send payments to veterans after they were listed as dead by the Veterans Administration. In other cases, the VA listed people as dead who were still alive. But the crux of the problem appears to be deaths that […]