'There's a tangled mess of terrible technology and total indifference that has brought Social Security to this situation,' said financial columnist and author Terry Savage.
CHICAGO -- The Social Security Administration is trying to reclaim billions of dollars from some of the poorest and most vulnerable; payments the Social Security Administration sent, in some cases for years, but now says the people never should have received. It's a story first reported by CBS 60 Minutes on Sunday.The so-called money claw-back is having real life consequences for a woman in Chicago.
' 'Stop these clawbacks that are destroying the life of seniors and disabled people,' Savage said. 'There's a tangled mess of terrible technology and total indifference that has brought Social Security to this situation.'O'Brien said she was unknowingly double-dipping—collecting a government pension from her career in education and benefiting from her late husband's Social Security.
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