More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.
Dead people were ineligible to get the payments. But, the report said, there is no provision in the law to recover payments incorrectly sent to dead people.
Dead people ineligible? Say it ain't so!
"Based on the failure of the SSA to properly check its records, and Congress' failure to fully think through the provisions needed to govern these payments, SSA lost $22.3 million in American tax dollars," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. "These findings are yet another example of congressional stupidity and a lack of accountability."Stupidity? Nah...not Congress!
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This would be hilarious if it weren't TRUE!
