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Social Security Administration Should Improve Its Recovery of Overpayments Made to Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Beneficiaries

HRD-79-31 Published: Jan 17, 1979. Publicly Released: Jan 17, 1979.
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) made, and will continue to make, overpayments to individuals who receive retirement, survivors, and disability insurance benefits. Most overpayments are made to beneficiaries who earn more than the allowable limit set by law and who, despite the overpayments, continue to be eligible for benefits. Thus, the overpaid amounts are recoverable through adjustment against continuing benefits. Conversely, individuals who receive an overpayment and are subsequently removed from benefit status before repayment occurs represent a very difficult recovery problem for SSA.

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