{"id":74533,"date":"2017-09-06T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74533"},"modified":"2017-09-06T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:27:42","slug":"ssa-and-va-cant-talk-costs-taxpayers-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74533","title":{"rendered":"SSA and VA can’t talk – costs taxpayers millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

David sends us a link to United Press International<\/a> which reports that the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs can’t properly exchange the status of veterans which resulted in payments totaling more than $38 million to dead veterans;<\/p>\n

The Inspector General for the SSA found a systematic problem in which the SSA continues to send payments to veterans after they were listed as dead by the Veterans Administration. In other cases, the VA listed people as dead who were still alive. But the crux of the problem appears to be deaths that aren’t recorded properly and not put into the SSA system to determine whether a payment should continue or stop.<\/p>\n

“SSA reviewed selected instances and stated that VA had not included most of the individuals’ death information in monthly death data transmitted to SSA,” the IG report stated. “Based on our sample results, we estimate SSA issued about $37.7 million to 746 individuals after they died and will issue approximately $7.3 million more over the next 12 months if these discrepancies are not corrected.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m shocked that bureaucrats can’t talk to each other. It’s a simple process but the government makes it so hard, and the taxpayers, and the victims, end up footing the bill. The headline makes it sound like veterans are at fault, but, no, it’s the minor government functionaries who can’t use their computers to put the proper check in the proper box. The families are reporting the deaths, as they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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