Social Security makes $8B in improper payments

https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/14/in_depth_us/main20071107.shtml

(AP)

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration made $6.5 billion in overpayments to people not entitled to receive them in 2009, including $4 billion under a supplemental income program for the very poor, a government investigator said Tuesday.

In all, about 10 percent of the payments made under the agency's Supplemental Security Income program were improper, said Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr., the Social Security inspector general.