Some Social Security beneficiaries say the government is clawing back benefits after they received covid stimulus payments that were supposed to be exempt from asset limits.
Julia Greune, who is blind and has cerebral palsy, with her father, Dave Greune. Dave received notice from the Social Security Administration that his daughter was overpaid “because her resources were more than a person could own and still get SSI.” October 18, 2023 at 8:20 am EDTBut some recipients say the COVID relief payments have triggered financial distress by jeopardizing their Social Security benefits.
And the collection efforts illustrate the limitations and dysfunction that have come to define the agency. Or even worse, she said in an email: “If I don’t start receiving my money back, well let’s just say I have my will ready.”The COVID stimulus payments aren’t supposed to trigger Social Security clawbacks.
“As far as we can tell, SSA simply doesn’t have the tools to implement a permanent exclusion from the resource limit,” Romig said. Sen. Ron Wyden , chair of the Senate Finance Committee, asked the Social Security Administration in September 2021 how many people had their SSI payments reduced or cut off on account of the stimulus payments. In its written response,
In April 2023, two years after Julia’s last stimulus payment, the agency notified Greune that it had been overpaying her since September 2020. Ultimately, he said, he reached a person who told him she saw no record of the agency having received the appeal he filed online — or the documents he delivered by hand.
In early 2021, about a year after the first economic impact payments, known as EIPs, were distributed, the Social Security Administration issued what it called an “
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