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While we are talking about legal issues
cbxjeff
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Here is a hypothetical one:
If someone has been receiving (through no dishonest statements or documents on their part) more Social Security monthly payments than they should, are they required to pay it back? I repeat, this is strictly an error on the SS department. I know as a kid I played monopoly and would sometimes get a bank error in my favor and collect money. This isn't quite the same though. 😀
Thanks folks,
It's too late for me, save yourself.
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yes either paid back, or scheduled deductions from future SS payouts
If they figure it out, you bet you boots they will take it back. Or hold future ones until everything balances out.
They will even take back a dead person's check.
When/if they figure it out, they will take it back out of future payments. If you’re adventurous, you can think of it as an interest free loan that (you) may never have to repay. As for me, not sure I’d want the potential repayment hanging over my head.
Of course you'll pay it back. The only variable is that if it was their mistake there will be no penalty and you will be allowed the option of paying it back by making payments.
And the bonus... over payment that was taxed as income.
Thanks guys.
A few years ago when my Step-Mother passed away she was in the middle of paying back an over payment from social security from an error they made about 2 years prior. She was paying it back
by Social Security reducing her check each month. When I contacted Social Security to let them know she had passed and to ask about a deposit that had come in the day after she died, the payment was sent back and I was told we would receive a statement on what she owed.
A week or so later I received an invoice for the remainder and a gentle reminder of how quickly they expected payment.....
IMHO, time to set up a meeting with SS and get it straightened out.....because one way or another they will collect.
SS has only 2 ways of collecting overpayments: either you let them take the % (according to a formula) out of your future checks, or you pay more or sooner.
My pet peeve is that you have to return the check received in the month in which you die. So, tell your family to pull the plug on you as close to the beginning of the month as possible.
Don't like the heavy handed approach, complain to your members of Congress; they made all the decisions on payment rules.
Neal
"My pet peeve is that you have to return the check received in the month in which you die."
That's not quite accurate. Keep in mind that the check you receive this month is for last month, but you must survive through the day the payment is due. If you die before that day, the payment is taken back: If you survive that day, the payment stays in your account. (Unless they've changed the rules in the last four years.)
Don't ask me how I know.
I am appalled and for no other reason than by what right do you have to question it, I receive an income from the government and its someone's affliction that's the unalienable right to screw it up! Women and their superstitions.
OK then.
Brad Steele
I just stumbled across this thread, came to your post, and wow. WHAT?!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I speak fluent OWL.
He said that it takes 3 licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop.
Now I am also wondering what the heck Mr. or Ms. Owles is trying to communicate !!
Owles, My President Trump must have had you really shook up for the last 4 yrs., good for him. Just remember, it's true he might be taking a 4 yr. vacation, but he'll be back. 😀
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
The IRS and SS Admin are the most powerful nightmares from hell on this earth. They make the US military look like softball sissies. The absolute power they hold over your money, property, possessions and life is incomprehensible to sane folks.
Their error, your error or nobody's error they will crucify you to get back or legally extort (IRS) any money some pencil pushing DC swamp dweller deems appropriate.
Crawl begging to them and explain what the error is and pray to almighty God above you get someone with a soul that is not owned by the devil.
Ever watch the movie "Cat Ballou" - I ain't never seen a man get through a day so fast …."
BTW, it isn't "government money" it's taxpayer money. 😉
Leave the Politics out of this thread or it will be moved.
Best.
Why was this thread even brought back? Jeff's SS overpayment question was asked and answered over two weeks ago. If the thread was dragged up for no other reason than to pick a fight, this type of activity ends right now.