$1 billion paid to dead people, senator reports -- $110 Billion in Error to Others

$1 billion paid to dead people, senator reports

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The federal government has paid out more than $1 billion in checks to dead people over a decade, according to a new report by the top Republican on the Senate's investigative panel.
All told, the government has paid out funds to some 250,000 dead people, said Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on investigations.

"Washington paid for dead people’s prescriptions and wheelchairs, subsidized their farms, helped pay their rent, and even chipped in for their heating and air conditioning bills," Mr. Coburn's

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I guess with a population of over 300 million, some mistakes are going to be made but,

payments to the dead are one example of the broader trend of erroneous payments, which he said totaled $110 billion last year.

$110 billion! :O That's a lot of money. It only comes out to about $340 per person on average, but still, how can there be that much oversight... Wonder who REALLY ends up with this money.



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" Wonder who really ends up with the Money ? "


Dead Men Tell No Tales.................

Heck in Japan they cant even keep track of their elderly.
www.newser.com...

Either there's a massive, secret senior center somewhere, or there's a whole lot of fraud going on in Japan. After discovering that Tokyo's oldest man had actually been dead for 30 years, the country starting calling on its centenarians—and in addition to one gruesome find, it's discovered that some 230,000 of them are missing. Hundreds, if alive, would actually be at least 150 years old, found officials.

I think the beurocracy in this situiation is so thick and muddled that these things are going to keep happening. If someone dies, and their next of kin still gets the deceased's pension check or whatnot in the mail a month later, do you think they are going to report it?

You know the system #*$^*@# up when....

Your government happily gives dead people a billion dollars, and wont budge for your unemployment for the winter. Lovely.

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yeah right? unemploment insurance just went up for my boss too. Off topic but we've got these 2 dead beats who have been collecting unemploment longer than they even worked here seasonally. They system is F'ed from both angles in that regard. the people get F'd so they abuse the system however they can & its the person in the middle, the homeowner or businessman or whatnot that gets it from both angles.

And don't forget the 2.3 trillion the Pentagon can't account for. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

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everyone will admit that this is governmental waste and desperately does need oversight

but people die every day and noone notifies the feds to tell them any different

this is what you get when we have bloated government

these things while are abhorant are every day occurences.