social security

It's easy to point out their corrupt actions.

I wonder how many people were hurt by the SS not giving beneficiaries their payments?

In Fiscal Year 2023, the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) identified an estimated ** $10.6 billion in improper payments**. This total included ** $8.9 billion in overpayments** and ** $1.7 billion in underpayments**. [1]

Key audits and payment findings for 2023 include:

• Resource Errors: OIG estimated that the SSA could have prevented approximately ** $2 billion in overpayments** in 2023 if it had consistently searched for undisclosed bank accounts using its Access to Financial Institutions (AFI) program between routine redeterminations. [1]
• Critical Payment Processing: An OIG audit found that SSA employees did not accurately process roughly 38% of critical/emergency payments during Fiscal Year 2023, resulting in roughly 28,000 processing errors. [1]
• Manual Record Errors: For 2023 critical payments, errors resulted in ** $12 million** in improper payments, and roughly 10,500 beneficiaries received 1099 tax statements that were incorrectly stated by a combined total of about ** $14 million**. [1]
• Misdirected Funds: An audit of telephone-based direct deposit updates from late 2023 identified about ** $2.2 million** in misdirected benefit payments due to security and procedural vulnerabilities. [1]