Investigation by CMG TV Stations and KFF Health News prompts calls for Congressional Hearings
, Rep. Marc Molinaro said the Social Security Administration should fix its systems and “immediately stop seeking back overpayments.”
In an interview this week, Senator Brown said he had already taken some action in the wake of the CMG-KFF Health News investigation. The Social Security Administration, which issues more than $1 trillion of payments annually, has said its overall payment accuracy is high. The agency is required by law to adjust benefits or recover debts when it establishes that someone has been overpaid, SSA spokesperson Tiggemann said in a Sept. 13 statement for the recent investigative report by KFF Health News and CMG.
That echoed the views of SSA employees and advocates for beneficiaries, who said the agency is so understaffed that members of the public have trouble communicating with it — either to submit information or to sort out alleged overpayments.
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