{"id":28115,"date":"2011-09-07T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/social_security_pays_millions_to_dead_people\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:00:40","slug":"social_security_pays_millions_to_dead_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28115","title":{"rendered":"Social Security pays millions to dead people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many Americans worry that the Social Security Administration won&#8217;t have enough money left to pay their benefits when they retire, the agency is doling out millions of dollars to people who aren&#8217;t even alive.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Security inspector general estimates that the agency has made $40.3 million in erroneous payments to deceased beneficiaries &#8212; even though the administration had already recorded their deaths in its records. The estimate is based on a sample tested during its most recent audit in January 2008, the watchdog agency said.<\/p>\n<p>One man told CNNMoney that he notified Social Security four years ago that his mother had passed away, but he still can&#8217;t get the agency to stop sending her checks every month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/07\/pf\/social_security_benefits_deceased\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many Americans worry that the Social Security Administration won&#8217;t have enough money left to pay their benefits when they retire, the agency is doling out millions of dollars to people who aren&#8217;t even alive. The Social Security inspector general<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28115\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,103,438,149,184,673,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-parish-ministry","category-social-security","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}