Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents decades-old debts:...

chiya Loc: Wellsboro, Pa.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/social-security-treasury-target-hundreds-of-thousands-of-taxpayers-for-parents-old-debts/2014/04/10/74ac8eae-bf4d-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about often a debt incurred by their parents the government has confiscated their check.

catfish252

It befuddles me that at a time like this after almost 40 years the Federal Government is making an attempt to collect over paid benefits not from the individual but from the descendants. What do you want to bet they will tell us "It's a step in balancing the budget" I've already sent a letter to my congressmen about this. Everyone needs to.

ottopj Loc: Annapolis, MD USA

Probably some low level bureaucrat using his/her power to beat up on descendants of those those who were the benefit, even if they didn't realize it, of the Government's screwup.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

have to have money to give to the illegals!
watch "out of control fraud"

ole sarg Loc: south florida

To think one of the few bills the GOPT passes punishes the middle class! I'm SHOCKED!

When are you TBaggers gonna learn. The GOP does not have your best interests at heart!

REad the article!

SteveR Loc: Michigan

The SSA would also do well to follow their own policies. I won't go into details, but my son-in-law, who is deaf, was given disability at one point, rather than SSI. His mother took him in at the time. He was 18 and not working, although he had worked previously, which is why they gave him disability. The problem is that no interpreter was present (as is required by their policies), and his reading level was not sufficient to understand the forms he was signing. So, in effect, he was receiving no communication. When the checks started coming, he thought it was something just for being deaf, and thought nothing of it when he started working. We're appealing their attempts to collect the overpayment because they did not provide somebody to provide effective communication to him as required in their policies.

P.S. With SSI, the SSA monitors your checking acct., etc. for any money one might make. This is not done with disability recipients. As young and big and strong as my sil was, it only made sense to put him on SSI.

Black Bart Loc: Indiana

ole sarg wrote:

To think one of the few bills the GOPT passes punishes the middle class! I'm SHOCKED!

When are you TBaggers gonna learn. The GOP does not have your best interests at heart!

REad the article!

Sarge you are an Idiot do you think this bill was passed without the DemocRAT senate.

Collecting money that is due is a good idea for those that owe but not for people that are relatives, NO common sense in our government.

catfish252

I have to laugh at people who think that one party is any better than the other. In Washington it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on -- most of them vote for whatever way benefits them the most they don't give a hoot for their constituents. Our biggest problem in Washington is not Democrat vs Republican -- it is honesty and integrity or should I say the lack thereof.

Black Bart Loc: Indiana

catfish252 wrote:

I have to laugh at people who think that one party is any better than the other. In Washington it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on -- most of them vote for whatever way benefits them the most they don't give a hoot for their constituents. Our biggest problem in Washington is not Democrat vs Republican -- it is honesty and integrity or should I say the lack thereof.

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chiya Loc: Wellsboro, Pa.

catfish252 wrote:

I have to laugh at people who think that one party is any better than the other. In Washington it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on -- most of them vote for whatever way benefits them the most they don't give a hoot for their constituents. Our biggest problem in Washington is not Democrat vs Republican -- it is honesty and integrity or should I say the lack thereof.

:thumbup:

a big AMEN to that

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

catfish252 wrote:

I have to laugh at people who think that one party is any better than the other. In Washington it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on -- most of them vote for whatever way benefits them the most they don't give a hoot for their constituents. Our biggest problem in Washington is not Democrat vs Republican -- it is honesty and integrity or should I say the lack thereof.

Too True

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

catfish252 wrote:

I have to laugh at people who think that one party is any better than the other. In Washington it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on -- most of them vote for whatever way benefits them the most they don't give a hoot for their constituents. Our biggest problem in Washington is not Democrat vs Republican -- it is honesty and integrity or should I say the lack thereof.

Just like the senator in "Shooter", who tells Mark Walberg, "...son, there's no 'SIDES' - there's only the side that gets PAID! And that's the side you want to be on." Guess taxpayers are the one's paying.

Robert R Loc: Indianapolis and Naples

"A single sentence tucked into a farm bill". I wonder if anyone really actually read it.

Adrienne

I don't believe that is legal. Unless
the GOP has slipped a new law
effective immediately that
says we owe X # dinosaur femurs
for the debts of our Neanderthal
relatives.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

According to the news report, the authorizing language is in the Agriculture bill just past. The way the phrase reads, it is broad enough to allow what is being done.

Another "unintended consequence"? Or, is this another of the administration's methods of "making it hurt" as they did when the shut-down that Obama suggested actually did occur...