Treasury Department recoups $31 million in improper government payments to dead people
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The Treasury Department announced this week that it had recouped more than $31 million in fraud and improper payments to dead people.
In 2020, the Government Accountability Office estimated that during the first round of COVID-19 stimulus checks, $1.4 billion was sent to dead people. Across all three rounds of stimulus checks during the pandemic, nearly $3.6 billion went to dead people, according to OpenTheBooks.
The SSA is the only government agency with a database that records the deaths of U.S. citizens. In 2023, as part of an omnibus appropriations bill, Congress granted access for the Treasury Department, on a temporary basis, to have access to the database to help prevent improper payments to dead people. The temporary basis is set to expire in 2026.
The Treasury Department announced this week that it had recouped more than $31 million in fraud and improper payments to dead people.
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