Social Security overpayments: Tips to prevent them

Social Security overpays its recipients by billions of dollars every year-and then asks for the money back. Here are some ways experts say you can reduce the chances of it happening to you.
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[@lianefehrle9921]

Why should it be our responsibility to find out that they messed up? If they gave out too much money so be it. We should not get punished for it.

[@MaryMilam-p6k]

I'm going through it that claimed that I owe ten thousand dollars

[@har8397]

💯💯💯💯

[@AndogaSpock]

We need to pay more taxes, so that they can hire more people and catch these mistakes early!

[@MariaDiazSeguroSocial]

@@AndogaSpockthey need to train the employees and get all the employees back to the office. Working from home is not productive- walk in traffic needs help.

[@JohnDoe-my5ip]

@MariaDiazSeguroSocial sounds like a terrible way to resolve a staffing shortage. Pay the employees next to nothing, and force them all to gather in one place. Ruin a million people’s lives per year with this racket. Let them all own assault rifles. Grandpa just lost his house. He has cognitive impairment from age, lead, and lifestyle. I’d sooner enlist in the military. Much less dangerous. Besides, closing these offices and selling them off would do more to plug the deficit than making grandpa homeless.

[@lindalucas7553]

When I made mistakes on my job, I had to accept accountability for it. Matter of fact, I was made to accept the responsibility. However, when a Social Security worker makes a mistake, the Government holds the recipients responsibility for their employees mistakes. How can that be fair?🎉

[@donnabaardsen5372]

It isn't. It's CRIMINAL.

[@racerx6]

Record your phone call with anybody you talk to from SSA. They will lie and say, " I never told them that". They are government workers after all.

[@BRM202]

The veterans administration does this as well. I'm a veterans service officer and I noticed lately that there have been a lot of collections of veterans or veterans widows for overpayments which were not the veterans fault.

[@Savannah-ed4rv]

Oh that's just awful! I'm currently appealing a claim on my husband's for death and indemnity and of course it's taking years and years and years, and I hope that they don't make a mistake with me!

[@donnabaardsen5372]

This happened to me. I get SSI, and notified them the minute I was told a family member had left me $6,000, which was a total surprise. They didn't even wait until the money got to me. It had to go through channels before it did. They punished me even though I had no idea this was coming, and didn't even have the money. I'm now having to pay them $10 per month until what they claim I was overpaid, is paid back! I now fully understand why people lie to them and get money under the table. They're nasty and negligent. They should be sued for the nightmares they are and cause.

[@crystalhanson1483]

I heard many years ago. . .Federal Agencies and Federal Employees CAN NOT BE SUED! Includes Postal Employees who STEAL Federal Social Security checks! ! !

[@aprilbradley6787]

SS needs to be penalized

[@johnp139]

Exactly how?

[@cherylalt101]

Thanks for sharing this information. I had no idea we could be held responsible for an SSA error and they could forcibly collect it years later. I'm going to have to pay much closer attention to my account. This really seems unfair to make individuals pay for an administration error that we aren't even aware was an error. They should be held responsible for errors they make, not us!

[@janetwhite7786]

A friend studying for the CPA test found out that at the IRS, if the agent gives you bad info that you then use on your taxes, it is YOUR problem.

[@cherylalt101]

@@janetwhite7786 that’s ridiculous Janet! That’s as bad as Social Security sending the wrong amount and then expecting us to be responsible for it. They get us coming and going!

[@JamesOfEarth]

Happening to me right now. My mom signed me up for SSI when I was 17, qualifying because I’m legally blind. Drew payments for less than a year, then took a crap summer job to help pay for college. Following year they cancelled my payments and said I owed them a few thousand. I let them know I had no means to pay. After a few back and forth, didn’t hear from them again. That was 1984. Fast forward to this year when I applied for SSDI because my disability had worsened such that I can’t work anymore. Now, they say I owe them $9k+ because they think they paid me thru 1996. 100% did not happen and I get assumed guilty and have to prove my innocence. Broken system.

[@SaveOurDisabilityFund]

Do you ever try to call them only to be redirected to another number that directs you back to the original number or to a voice mail that doesn't work? That's my experience with most agencies today. They don't provide quality training to representatives so they just bounce you back and forth to pretend like they're doing something.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

Not "broken," they're corrupt.

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

It’s the people the hired from the equity, diversity and inclusion pool of applicants in other words unqualified people for the job and totally arrogant too.

[@SaveOurDisabilityFund]

@@TheTruth-dy8ze You assume too much. Maybe learn something about others before committing to silly points of view based so purely on stereotypes and superficial anecdotes.

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

@@SaveOurDisabilityFund Having been in the situation of a payback demand is a silly point? What planet are you from? Guess your your choice of name kind of points to your mind set smoking too much weed I would guess.

[@hr6334]

What a nightmare. Why is there no law in place to make sure SSA does their job and remains their responsibility if they mess up? This insane! Great work, 60mins. I am on alert now.

[@richiemochi]

Social security is predatory towards seniors who have been paying for decades into their retirement. When its time to retire SS now says they overpay seniors whos been working for decades. despicable

[@1231sword]

Thank you Andy and Annabelle.....this is such important information.

[@BeSmarterToday]

I am a 72 year old woman. I have never gotten a cent from SSA despite needing it to live, because my ID was stolen years ago without my knowledge. As a result. I can't renew my drivers license, or even vote. I know exactly how SSA treats people. No compassion whatsoever, even if it is something beyond your control.

[@johnp139]

I think you are making things up. You can easily get a replacement ID.

[@usaearthling]

@@johnp139 Yes you can, no matter how long ago it happened, she is still in the system. 👍

[@theresaneely304]

​@johnp139 why would she make it up

[@AssataSaleem]

So should you be a social security recipient and employee to get it correct, 🤔

[@missmattox5636]

@@johnp139 Maybe her identity was stolen; not her identification.

[@Lobsterman5481]

This should not be happening with today's technology.

[@johnp139]

They are using 40 year old technology.

[@marybonilla3356]

I have the same problem, they even took my widows income. Now I live on $1,000. Per month, they refuse to fix it, I call and call no one help me I call senior help they couldn't do anything, I beg them to at lease take $100. a month they refuse to work with me, they don't care no one cares. 😢 I send the overpayment letter that didn't work.

[@Chromegrillz]

It’s impossible to fight social security without lawyers. Out of no where you get big overpayment. I talk to experts telling most of time social security offices make the errors but you still have to payback overpayment regardless.

[@lillharvee2213]

This ‼️ ‼️ has been the case and it's not right at all. Someone needs to investigate ssi and make them change their policies.

[@Chromegrillz]

@@lillharvee2213 Absolutely agree.

[@SaveOurDisabilityFund]

Try fighting for disability benefits while disabled with no income, no food, no running water, and a worsening condition staring you in the face that may not even get diagnosed because it's even harder to find doctors that are truly qualified and are actually motivated to even try to help. They're more as likely to use you as a prop to get more pharma kickbacks or throw you towards gimmicky, unproven, wellness industry hack ideas that just don't make sense and have more health risks than jumping in a pool of alligators.

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Congress needs to clean up this issue. if it's SSA fault, they can't punish the people for it.

[@johnp139]

How are the people being PUNISHED?!?

[@patriciafeeley7997]

Very good you guys did this as a public service

[@forestforthetrees1111]

Thank you for this!!

[@Thomas-Chin10]

I think the main issue is that people can't tell if they are being overpaid. If the payments they received match the calculation that they received from social security administration, why should they question and challenge their payments?

[@johnp139]

You would think that someone receiving the benefits for FIVE PEOPLE would know that something was wrong!

[@abic5468]

You can’t question them. They use intimidation tactics and threaten you indirectly.

[@everetteborr]

Social Security is an extremely complex program with more rules than any reasonable person can follow. I find it unconscionable that Social Security would demand repayment for THEIR mistakes. At a minimum, any repayment plans should be reasonable for the beneficiaries.

[@brendawilder9018]

The Social Security Administration is wrong to make these people pay for their mistakes. This is a shame . Congress definitely needs to step in and change these laws.

[@lisagunter6033]

when we get responsible people in congress then that might happen.

[@christinaagoncillo5100]

Such a complicated topic.

[@amywatkins9309]

I receive SSDI and this has occurred twice within a year to me. The first time, they withheld money despite an appeal. This time? They didn’t. And I’m sure it’s because Congress told them to stop withholding benefits. It has contributed to so much more financial strife for me this year. Overpayments were supposedly from 2017-2019. Took them three years to tell me.

[@eblessed1962]

It happened to me as well due to me working part time and that june and sept have 3 pay periods that i went over 200 dollars i was close to being evicted and they dont care it was during covid that they didnt work. I contacted my congressman.

[@amywatkins9309]

@@eblessed1962I reached out to mine as well but got no response.

[@catherineromero1862]

How is this not elder abuse?

[@cathyburrows8162]

So if you are homeless and are couch surfing , you have report the value of couch you are sleeping on, they are over reaching a little bit you think , considering homeless person doesn't own the couch. This government tries deny its own citizens anything including the right to exist.

[@crystalhanson1483]

TRUE!

[@BubbaQRibsTV]

Social security paid us and then said they overpaid by 4k. Then they said they would take 1000 from each check ( not enough left to live on) for 7 months. That's 7k. We filed the paperwork and it's pending now and our payments wernt effected this month, but if they take it again like that I'm not sure what to do then. We struggled the first month they took 1000 from us.

[@ninelt.9825]

I would Never Ever allowed/signed for it!!!

[@johnp139]

How many months was the overpayments happening?

[@lillharvee2213]

This is the case for me and my son he has autism and is given benefits they keep adding overpayments on his account because he receives child support payments on and off. Ssi pays him benefits on the first, but then he receives a child support payment on let's say the middle of the mth, they then say ohh you have a overpayment, THATS NOT RIGHT. This has repeatedly happened and now they have a BIG bill of overpayments on his account! They say it's our fault but how can that be when soon as the child support payment is noticed the document is sent in to them. But because the payment had already been made they throw it back on to us as it's our fault. They set up they have is not right. And someone needs to make them change that, and it shouldn't be put on our back to have to repay the overpayments. They should be forgiven. Because it's not the recipient fault. Social security needs to be investigated about these policy's. For change with them.

[@angelhicks9106]

I am having the same issue. What are you doing about this? It not fair at all. Are you making the payments?

[@Praisethesunson]

Meanwhile massive tax cuts for the richest people keep happening without consequence.

[@castlejrichardson6308]

Most people may have to Lawyer up when going up against Social security ⚖️💸💶💯

[@ninelt.9825]

There is NO lawyer who would help us with that!!! I tried them all.

[@lindagilmore6459]

@@ninelt.9825 Same here, my daughter is disabled and not one of these so called Disability agencies would give me any type of help let alone an attorney.

[@michellestranges9741]

Wonder how many under payments are made

[@thattubesound2214]

I work in the private sector. Thus, if I mess up, it is on me. Why are we paying so much money to continue to employ arrogant and indifferent government workers? We need to clean house and hire replacements who know from the beginning that their continued employment AND their rate of pay will be performance-based. I earned less than $70 for each of the last three years, yet I was audited two of those years by the IRS. We have a problem with our civil service employees that is growing every year!

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

Equal opportunity employees, mandated by the government programs therefore they are unqualified for the job.

[@johnp139]

It’s probably due to the poor IT infrastructure.

[@salemdesigns65]

Too late. $92,000. And I still dont know why. I've appealed it.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

DON'T "TALK" TO ANYONE! Get EVERYTHING in writing (save emails, chat transcripts, etc.).

[@lindagilmore6459]

If you don't they will take your money anyway all at once, in my daughter's case is was 9,000. No lawyers or Disability agencies want to help. Most of the time they admit it's their fault but they still blame you.

[@Jon-lo5de]

This sounds like a big money grab

[@AndogaSpock]

Imagine the number of calls they will be getting this week 😂

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

MY HUSBAND DIED, 3 wks ago.52 yr old.INSTEAD OF helping his injured/ill WIDOW& 2 teens .they're saying i OWE THEM BACK HIS $ For last year & my minor child's. What?? They state he wasnt'disabled' anymore- yet SURPRISE .DIED of the exact issue suddenly- same day as my sweet Dad died. How do I feed my kids,now no car, foreclosure.ICU RN who is ill/injured..😮😢

[@susanrand512]

SSA stopped sending out the annual statements but the website has that info.

[@tgc4204]

Those who had to pay income tax on these overpayment may not be able to claim an income tax refund when the Overpayment Notice from Social Security Admin came more than 3 years after filing of the income tax. The federal govt ends up taking income tax it does not deserves.

[@abic5468]

It’s deliberate. We got those same exact letters as have a lot of people.

[@pamzib4080]

They did it to me. Just point blank stopped my checks, after they had sent me notices that that is what I would be paid on a monthly basis. I had no clue there was a mistake because it wasn’t much. But that small amount adds up over two or three years. Boom! Surprise….

[@pamelahynson6049]

I wondered that at onetime..I ask them to double check and make sure their info is right..

[@jonathanclouse1344]

SSA probably didn't have any records of that one gentleman's medical determination because individual state agencies process the medical side of the claim. He should search for the state office where he lives for past records regarding his medical eligibility.

[@soulman7soulman784]

Not true…all SSDI/SSI medical records are a required filing within the SSA (queue) systems by the STATE AGENCY to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.

[@KingAngel4Life]

How can one have debt from money one works for and the Government makes you pay them? Working Americans are loaning them our paychecks. Let me save my own money and stop Pimping Americans. No problem giving Immigrants our tax dollars, big problem making sure working Americans get what is deserved.

[@bradfranklin-j66co]

3:14 - legal argument strategy - 1 - Contest amount in writing with social security. - 2 - If they reply it is correct, - 3 then that misinformation is grounds for overpayment waiver. ----- 4:40 10 dollar a month overpayment plan is a possibility; it is contingent on one’s eligibility for their Medicare Part B premium being paid for I assume the state the beneficiary lives in (Medicare extra help program?) ---- 5:00 SSA might stop your checks entirely; finding legal representation is a huge long shot and unrealistic --- 5:38 NoSScr National Organization of Social Security Claims and Representatives --- 5:51 a book “Social Security Horror Stories” by Laurence Kotlifoff, Terry Savage

[@jeffreylorber5405]

Given that 60 minutes got SS to give up on the people on the show, isn't that a precedent that would apply to everyone else?

[@benbrown8258]

Is it easier to collect from the poor than it is to tax the rich? I fear because of Citizens United it is. Only problem is even if every person earning less than $40,000 gave up their full income it would not remotely match the taxes the top 1% owed if the rate was the same for them as it was for the top 1% in the 1960's.

[@Alan-hm9on]

Congress must act quickly and change these outdated non-sense laws. Government can't figure this out then they expect a group of people who are mainly poor, disabaled and senior citizens to find out and report it?!! In this day and age rely on SS staff to manually calculate benefits with extremly complex rules is crazy! Simplify the program and set the criteria for onging payments based on what can be done automatically and with computer. There are a ton of data from other government agencies and banks are available to feed their system and automtically calculate payments and make the correct amount by end of the month and done with it.

[@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987]

I make less then $14,000 year disabled so I'm extremely under paid at 55. But it Circle of Life

[@jeffteyrosado9966]

It's stealing even though they did it

[@coreysue3451]

all the companies who do business in the US...if they paid taxes none of this would be an issue.

[@floief]

.....because you could get a letter one day demanding you return money for a period of time they say you received benefits when you actually received NONE.

[@citticat2]

Unfortunately SS is not based on your FICA withholding but a calculated number that the govt wants to give back to keep you just above a poverty level. Unless you save every documented amount that is withhold most people are not keeping tract and when you retire according to SS the money will be based on your "earning" not FICA withdrawals. Think about it.

[@thelastbison2241]

Amazing news story

[@DRockafeller]

Someone needs to fix that issue its horrible

[@hellasow]

So if i get a huge over payment in the mail take the money and when they want it back tell them to put me on the $10 payment plan...got it...Sounds like i want an over payment to me...

[@franciscovarela7127]

Thank you for this information.

[@Danny-bd2eh]

One more thing people out there have to know that you are not eligible for social security benefit if you are not a U.S. citizen by the time you determine to retire and apply for benefit, even you have paid a lot of social security taxes to Uncle Sam in the past.

[@Miranda3730]

Legal permanent USA residents ARE indeed elegible for SS benefits if they have paid into it. These Permanent residents are not citizens but as I said, elegible for SS benefits.

[@Danny-bd2eh]

@@Miranda3730 : SSI and SS retirement programs are two different animals. You are talking about SSI benefits (All legal permanent residents are qualified) which are designed to assist aged, blind and disable persons and children with basic needs, and they don't have to pay taxes for the benefits. Social Security retirement funds (only U.S. citizens are qualified) are based on work history and contributions, plus contributions funded by employers and wage taxes.

[@debrafoy-re3gu]

Legal green card residents, non USA citizens ,are eligible for SSA retirement funds. They would have been employed legally with all medical deductions, pensions, and taxes withheld from their pay. They just cannot vote.

[@Danny-bd2eh]

@@debrafoy-re3gu : You are giving false information to the public. Why don’t you find out the truth by visiting Social Security office and talk to those people who are working there instead of fabricating your own version? SS retirement funds are only for U.S. citizens when they retire and apply for benefits, not Green-card holders.

[@angelaweathersbee1334]

How about some overdue oversight?

[@RavenclawFtW3295]

I prefer not to have anything to do with government programs like that. They are slow, unresponsive, incompetent, and unforgiving.

[@cbaldridge49]

I got a statement every year saying what they were gonna pay me and then a couple years later they said they overpaid me and they wanted money back so that is no guarantee.

[@pbryant1360]

My recipient had such a hard time. As a transplant patient, ssa put him through hell. Never allowed for the cost of immunosuppressive meds to factor in when computing his wages. Essential for living but not as a work expense. Then refused to restart his benefit when he could no longer work. Please ssa realize that yes you can be disabled and restart work more than once! A transplant means you can return to work but when you experience complications you need the benefit restarted. I most assuredly would call write and hand deliver a im working now stop my benefit and I can bet I’d still be overpaid.

[@kitwongsegacom]

It is not our fault.,.it is IRS fault...

[@jillclarke7264]

Why is the SSA and it's employees not the responsible parties.

[@fauxbro1983]

how bout let us opt out

[@unknownopinionoid2672]

U can call ur senator and they can remove these type bills !

[@ninelt.9825]

I did ask for help, more than once, President's Office. It was a joke: SSA's "reply" was :"We'll let you know when we'll decide."

[@janmcguire5268]

I’m losing my house because SS is withholding checks until I have paid back an overpayment. I don’t have any way to pay the mortgage.

[@Synoopy2]

You almost need a lawyer to even begin to understand any of the explanations for overpayment.

[@paulsaragosa371]

Captain obviously

[@bethr7621]

How is it that student loans are written off but not this. Ridiculous

[@kpatel7995]

Thanks for bringing this very Informative video to us.

[@ONEWAY971]

The 6th phase of slavery

[@raisadicardaciotto8141]

I login to the website and the most important part I need as a representative is broken. Has been for years. All voicemails to our case worker have gone unreturned. Showed up in person at our office and told we have to make an appointment over the phone first. No one will set up our appointment in person and noone will return our calls. Website broken. Stressed out and frustrated waiting for Doomsday.

[@Kaaaaammmm]

And a note, you can only access the SS website dueing business hours, 8am to 5pm.

[@Shirazie98]

I received a letter from Social Security telling me I owe $60,000.00. While I was working I reported all my employment and showed all my paystubs and social security never contacted me to tell me I am making more then my benifit n kept giving me the benifit etc...... 😢. Now the social security not only has cut me off from my benifit but also the Medicare. Because of my disability I need to have an ongoing reasonable accommodation n since my social security situation not even a job coach is willing to work with me n no attorney is willing to take my case. I am completely stuck in the dead end. 😢

[@micheleamisonfellezs293]

Those numbers are no good anymore. I was disabled in an accident that for 8.5 years I have been waiting for disability hearing. Turned 65 and was told only the last ten years I worked count to my benefits. 50 years of paying taxes through working they decide I can survive on 700usd a month....before the accident it was almost triple. They stole 50 years of my taxes.

[@micheleamisonfellezs293]

that was my understanding as well. I was well over 40 credits to qualify for social security but because of an accident i was disabled over eight years ago, still waiting on my court hearing for ssi... i was told covid set it back so here we still wait. Because I turned 65 and am still waiting on a hearing, I applied for my SSN because i needed an income, .. that is when I discovered the law changed, and only the last ten years count for my SSN... i've further explored it and asked about the 50 years of taxes i've paid and was told funds are being used for the great numbers of young people filling for disability that haven't had a chance to put in to the system through employment. I was floored. So seniors at poverty level income pay for younger generations benefits. I've warned friends and family approaching retirement age to work to the bitter end ... not to mention medicare charges 174.00 a month, a third of my SSN income awarded to me. @@minhnn

[@consciouscoma85]

the value of the couch? 😟what a F-ED up system. When I contributed my work i didn't have any stipulations.

[@sabrinab9991]

This is another reason to do away with this program. 🙄

[@JoanneWisher]

They made the mistake and they should be held accountable not the people SSI is wrong for this it’s not like anyone can really live off what they took from the people when they were working

[@checle4499]

And yet, if you are a student who signed on the bottom line for a loan, you are not responsible and your "forgiven" debt is shoved off on to other taxpayers. Hard to believe that the govt has senior citizens best interests at heart.

[@GrantDWilliams82]

How about we just be allowed to opt out of this silly program entirely?

[@dianahill5116]

There should have been federal legislation written centuries ago, that allowed adopted people to have their adoption nullified. To be emancipated. There should have been legislation in the United States Constitution or in the Bill of Rights or in the Amendments, that allows adopted people to have their adoption nullified. To be emancipated. Regardless of their age. _____ Needed Federal Legislation. Adoption Nullification Act: Allowing adopted people to have their adoption nullified. To be emancipated. Regardless of their age. This would be an Amendment to the Emancipation Proclamation. _____ People are not property. Adoption should not be a form of slavery.

[@dianahill5116]

I was adopted. The emotional, mental, physical and verbal abuse started on the first day. I am not disputing the legal system/judge's decision on having me removed from the first group of people. And don't want that custody or authority to be given back to my biological relatives or their relatives. Waiting to have my adoption nullified. To be emancipated. ____ My adopted parents biological son at the age of fifteen started r*ping me, when I was nine years old. _____ The people that adopted me/I was forced to live with have been delaying this trial, for over twenty years. They don't want me to testify against them. They are angry that I contacted the law enforcement. They've been aiding, abetting and protecting a p*dophile. _____ Needed Federal Legislation. Adoption Nullification Act: Allowing adopted people to have their adoption nullified. To be emancipated. Regardless of their age. This would be an Amendment to the Emancipation Proclamation. ____ People are not property. Adoption should not be a form of slavery. I am in need of a lawyer to represent me. I am okay with going to the United States Supreme Court. This is as important as: Brown vs The Board of Education. Had there been federal legislation, I would have had my adoption nullified decades ago. And wouldn't have had to post this information. _____ Why doesn't my birth certificate have the word: Adopted? This should be mandatory for all adopted people. I want to take back my legal birth certificate.

[@dianahill5116]

The United States government and judiciary system failed to inform adopted people, upon being adopted their legal problems would begin. Having an adoption nullified, would be similar to divorce laws. Stating abuse, r*pe and incest. Stating irreconcilable differences and conflict of interests.

[@toddburgess5056]

I was adopted at birth.

[@jimmyjones6613]

Yeah, years back, they sent my brother a $6000 check. And he wasn't even on social security and they made me pay out of my. Check

[@Cancer887]

We shouldn't have to worry about this. Sounds like bs .

[@Dreamer20239]

Wow. Their mistakes you pay. No accountability.Scary..And this is America.

[@johnp139]

What kind of accountability do you want?

[@user-pe8il6pd2v]

It's sad that after people working for decades paying taxes and into the social security program, things like this can happen to the most vulnerable group of citizens in the US. Yet the same government can sent billions abroad....

[@pjesf]

So I should have been reconciling my SS contributions since year 1?

[@charmerci]

However, if you are a multi-millionaire with, tons of money, you'll still get paid SS regardless of what you have in the bank.

[@DavianSinner]

Yet another in a list of many reasons to become a multi-millionaire.

[@charmerci]

@novakd1530 - because (you and Davian) if everyone was a multi-millionaire, there'd be no need for SS. SS wasn't created for the rich. Duh.

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

Don’t see a problem with that you put in you should get back. Where I do have an issue is the illegals being given free hotel, free food, free clothing, free phone, free transport, free health care, free child education, plus pocket money, and just what have they contributed to deserve this? Let me see mmmm that would be nothing.

[@johnp139]

Why shouldn’t they get the money that they paid into?!?

[@charmerci]

​@@johnp139- as I just said - if everyone had enough money, there would be NO NEED FOR SOCIAL SECURITY! That's it's reason for existence. It's not there for the rich, it's there for the people that don't have money. Geez.

[@proudgrandma0306]

They've supposedly got me for 27,000 I did not received and got all the documents they need to proof I did not get that money.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The private SS Disability lawyers that you see on TV don't tell you that their "fee" is a percentage (usually 25%) of the benefits that get approved...

[@hollyfink6168]

And sit on the phone for 4 hours!

[@gimcrack555]

After SS see the mistake. Just adjust it to it's apparently amount. Don't ask any money back at all. In time you're still getting your money back. Just in the reversal way. As not over paying them.

[@xiomaraagosto-santiago]

They took my ssi and my son that's autism said that we was over paid it's ssi

[@TNRuss]

Fix SSA overpayment claw back. There are not enough employees to keep track of every one. I was talking to DHHS employee one time and they have 1600 people on their case load. That is total B.S. and SSA is in the same boat. I had some questions the other day and they seemed to know nothing about any changes. Zip ! The other year an employee said ( under their breath ) the bank is supposed to be watching this.

[@luke125]

It doesn’t matter what you do. You’ll never win against them.

[@imveryhungry112]

I dont get how they overpay people do they got some guy sitting their calculating your payments with a calculator? This is 2023 why cant they have a computer system calculate your payments.

[@michaelmack4686]

$111,000

[@cccro6228]

I do not believe The Social Security Administration. I believe Spouses get Cheated especially when the husband dies. The first question that you ask yourself after receiving your first check is, "where did all of that money go?"

[@pbryant1360]

Nevermind the stress when you try to make a payment. Must mail it can’t pay online checks held forever. Yep been there.

[@butterflygirl3359]

Don’t take a benefit designed for people who need money and have to work but are so sick that they cannot. Social Security Disability is not a supplement for low or part time wages. You don’t get to have it both ways. If you can work, no government check. This is the only way to prevent improper payments.

[@murphyrod4839]

I have Social Security Retirement Benefits and never any issues, I have a friend that receives Social Security Disability Benefits and he has constant issues. He has to return money all of the time.

[@josephconner4756]

Get a SSI Attorney to help you