Beware: Social Security Is Demanding Money Back Due To Their Own Errors!

[hollydolly]

Yes it should. But to accumulate that much I'd have to collect $900/mo for about 135 years, and that's after I was old enough to start collecting....or, in her case, after she lost significant work hours.

I'm pretty sure the SSA made an error when they billed that lady for $120K.

Yes...sounds like it...

 

[Warrigal]

What annoys me is governments turning over petty debts to debt collectors.

My mum had a part state pension (thanks Dad) and a part federal pension. When she died I immediately notified both pension funds and her bank. The bank account was closed and the money transferred into a deceased person account that could not be accessed until after probate was settled. The federal government continued to pay, as per policy, for one month after her death and the money went into the deceased estate bank account. The state government sent a letter of demand for, I think, three days of overpayment because she died three days too soon for their system.

I wrote back informing them of the contact details of the solicitor handling the will/probate but they continued to demand payment.

I ignored the letter so they handed the matter over to debt collectors. For a petty debt of less than a weeks worth of part pension! Dad would have been furious. I certainly was.