The payments, comprising less than 1% of total benefits paid, were mostly overpayments made from fiscal years 2015 through 2022. The SSA recently eased the rules around recovering overpayments to ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has said it is dealing with a "record-breaking backlog" of cases that has caused more than $1 billion in improper payments. A new report by the SSA Office ...

A record number of 5.2 million Social Security “pending action” claims have led to approximately $1.1 billion in improper payments to beneficiaries as of February 2024. The improper payments ...

A new watchdog report says hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are lost each year due to federal mistakes.