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Title: 72,000 stimulus payments went to dead people
Source:
AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007 ... us_stimulus_checks_dead_people
Published: Oct 7, 2010
Author: Ap
Post Date: 2010-10-07 18:48:40 by WhiteSands
Keywords: stimulus payments
Views: 12456
Comments: 23
WASHINGTON – A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison. The Social Security Administration's inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 million went to 72,000 people who were dead. The report estimates that a little more than half the payments were returned. The report said $4.3 million went to a little more than 17,000 prison inmates. The payments were part of the government's massive economic recovery package enacted in February 2009. Under the law, the $250 payments were sent to about 52 million Social Security recipients and federal retirees.
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#1. To: WhiteSands, Badeye, Liberator, war, go65, brain s (#0)
Isn't it funny that stories about waste and fraud in the non-stimulating "stimulus" fail to get much attention from our liberal friends here at Liberty's flame???
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Are you kidding? For a gaggle of apparatchiks whose every other word out of their mouth was Bush suddenly forget who's in the White House, forget speaking his name or posting a thread. Not that I'm defending Bush. He has a large hand in where we find ourselves.
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over. (Murron)
How many billions are unaccounted for in Iraq?
Your point being? It was wasted in Iraq so we can waste it in the US? At least in Iraq we got something for our money. We didn't get dick from the stimulus.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
So you have no issues with this. Got it.
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Got it. And you have no issue with billions in military waste. Got it. Or maybe the dead can cash checks in your two bit tin horn country.
Hey Minning, give me a USG program where there isn't waste. Your outrage is 100% selective and inconsistent.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
What makes you "believe" this? When have you posted about it before without anyone commenting upon it? Did you notice how the payements were discovered? How come you have no comment about a government program which detects waste and fraud and reecovers money? That is a BAD thong according to you?
You made that up, liar. $18MM versus unaccounted for billions. Which do you believe should be a priority to recapture?
So you don't have issues with tens of billions of dollars that went missing in Iraq?
Your outrage is 100% selective and inconsistent. Give me ANY program (private or government) in which there isn't waste.
"You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."
Hell, I'm still laughing at Pelosi's assertion 'foodstamps and unemployment checks are good for the economy'. They (Democrats) are quite insane these days.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
No. ______________________________________________________________________________ OUCH... Note to self...cutting back to one coffee a day requires better diligence with typing...
My selective answer was on topic. According to you this article is moot. And the dead must be able cash checks in your part of the world. Tell me just how did they know so many got the wrong checks? They were returned to the treasury, Mr Silly Foreigner. Since the dead don't cash checks I'll educated you on those sent to prisoners. Do you really think that prison mail isn't opened by staff before it gets to the inmate? On the inmate's unit when mail arrives, all checks and cash are collected, amounts written down on a form and the inmate endorses the checks and signs the form as correct. He then later can file to keep some of it according to policy or it goes into his account, or back to the sender or investigations if considered illegal (hint: SS and other Fed or Gov checks are illegal, but are generally caught and dealt with at the prison's Post Office which initially goes through the mail upon it's arrival) or suspicious. In some facilities all non contraband money goes into the inmate's accounts and is returned to the inmate in the form of script or credit at the canteen or whatever.
Since the dead don't cash checks I'll educated you on those sent to prisoners. You're clueless. This is indicative of the crap that happens. We can only guess at what we don't hear about in the press. Of course, you don't care as you're a liberal and that is all you care about is keeping the water walker in office.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
What she really said: Social Security sent checks to 52 million people, two tenths of one percent in error. More than half of the money erroneously paid out has been recovered - so I guess that makes the failure rate less than one tenth of one percent - I can live with that.
Hilariously funny, GO65. You didn't quote her, and we all know WHY. rotflmao
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
We can only guess at what we don't hear about in the press. BS if SS checks get to incarcerated inmates, heads WILL role. But your admission of "guessing" explains your total cluelessnes of how things operate in the USA.
The freedom loving Skip MacClure wants the Feds to have a multibillion dollar computer system linked to every city, county, state and municipal system with every one's status updated to the minute in order to stop this.
Right. Then he would complain about government spending tax payer money and the intrusiveness of a system that was able to keep such close tabs on American citizens.
#2. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
Isn't it funny that stories about waste and fraud in the non-stimulating "stimulus" fail to get much attention from our liberal friends here at Liberty's flame???
#3. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
Isn't it funny that stories about waste and fraud in the non-stimulating "stimulus" fail to get much attention from our liberal friends here at Liberty's flame???
Reality check - Obama is more popular than the tea party
#4. To: go65 (#3)
How many billions are unaccounted for in Iraq?
#5. To: go65 (#3)
Liberals are now pro nuclear proliferation and in support fundamentalist religion.
#6. To: WhiteSands (#5)
So you have no issues with this.
#7. To: mininggold (#6)
(Edited)
And you have no issue with billions in military waste. Got it.
#8. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
Isn't it funny that stories about waste and fraud in the non-stimulating "stimulus" fail to get much attention from our liberal friends here at Liberty's flame???
#9. To: WhiteSands (#5)
(Edited)
So you have no issues with this.
#10. To: WhiteSands (#5)
So you have no issues with this.
Reality check - Obama is more popular than the tea party
#11. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)
Hey Minning, give me a USG program where there isn't waste.
Reality check - Obama is more popular than the tea party
#12. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
Isn't it funny that stories about waste and fraud in the non-stimulating "stimulus" fail to get much attention from our liberal friends here at Liberty's flame???
#13. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
#14. To: war (#8)
That is a BAD thong according to you?
"We've got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois"
--Barack H. Obama, August 2006
#15. To: Ignore Amos (#14)
#16. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)
(Edited)
#17. To: mininggold (#16)
Tell me just how did they know so many got the wrong checks? They were returned to the treasury, Mr Silly Foreigner.
#18. To: Badeye (#13)
(Edited)
Hell, I'm still laughing at Pelosi's assertion 'foodstamps and unemployment checks are good for the economy'.
At a press conference in her home town of San Francisco, Pelosi explained that the program’s multiplier effect –the amount of money generated in the local economy as the result of the subsidy– far exceeds the nearly $60 billion spent this year by the federal government and is a sure-fire way to stimulate the economy. For every dollar a person receives in food stamps, Pelosi said that $1.79 is put back into the economy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture cites an even higher figure of $1.84.
Reality check - Government spending is down, the deficit is down, government employment is down, and private hiring is up.
#19. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#17)
You're clueless. This is indicative of the crap that happens.
#20. To: go65 (#18)
What she really said:
#21. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#17)
(Edited)
You're clueless. This is indicative of the crap that happens.
#22. To: lucysmom (#19)
Social Security sent checks to 52 million people, two tenths of one percent in error. More than half of the money erroneously paid out has been recovered - so I guess that makes the failure rate less than one tenth of one percent - I can live with that.
#23. To: mininggold (#22)
The freedom loving Skip MacClure wants the Feds to have a multibillion dollar computer system linked to every city, county, state and municipal system with every one's status updated to the minute in order to stop this.
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