RogerCooper
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This is what the audit report you reference said.Now your going to redefine the word fraud or play the substitution game? What do you want to call it? This is merely an attempt to dismiss fraudulent findings from the auditors that affected 72 Billion dollars. I kind of like number 13 myself.
Take your pick:
- Deceit
- Misrepresentation
- Scam
- Cheat
- Chicanery
- Double-Dealing
- Fake
- Dupery
- Sham
- Swindle
- Treachery
- Bamboozlement
- Pulled a fast one
Our audits confirmed SSA’s reliance on beneficiaries to report changes in their circumstancesresults in improper payments. Wages and income, resources, and living arrangements are afew of the factors that affect OASDI and/or SSI eligibility and payment amounts. SSA explicitlyinforms individuals of their reporting requirements during the application process, in their awardletters, and in periodic correspondence. However, beneficiaries do not always comply with,or understand, their responsibility to report this information. Obtaining data that assist withmaking eligibility and payment determinations from external sources, such as other Federal andstate agencies and financial institutions, is critical to preventing and detecting improperpayments.
For example, in a September 2023 audit, we reported that not all beneficiaries informed SSA ofthe workers’ compensation and public disability benefits (WC/PDB) they received, which led toSSA improperly paying them. We estimated SSA paid $138 million more from the DisabilityInsurance Trust Fund in 2019 than it would have had it been able to impose WC/PDB offset forover 22,000 beneficiaries who received payments from reverse offset plans. SSA has authorityto collect WC/PDB information to administer SSA’s programs; however, a state may determine itlacks authority to share information with SSA based on state law. Without these state data,SSA must rely on beneficiaries to report any WC/PDB they have received.
They are not talking about fraud or any kind of criminality. I suspect the most Workmen's Compensation beneficiaries assume the Social Security adjusts their benefits automatically.