The Social Security Administration has spent $25 million – by their own admission – on stimulus checks of $250 each to 10,000 would-be recipients, as in they would need a T-virus rejuvenation to cash them (WBAL-TV, h/t Jim Geraghty):
Social Security representatives said there is a good explanation. Of the about 52 million checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.
The agency blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline of mailing out all of the checks, which didn’t leave officials much time to clean up all of their records.
Really? So if the Administration had just waited a little while, the SSA could have cleaned up the recipients list? Er, not quite (same link, emphasis added):
83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week . . . His mother, Rose, died on Memorial Day in 1967.
Fear not, though, the SSA is on the case, well, sort of:
Social Security officials said they aren’t expecting to lose too much money to fraud. They’re reminding the public that it’s a federal offense to cash someone else’s Social Security check.
Something tells me they should start looking for a Plan B. Can you say Anti-fraud czar Milla Jovovich?
Personally, I would have gone with an Evil Dead / Bruce Campbell theme…
According to what I read on NRO, Joe Biden was supposed to be on the case to prevent any waste. Well, we saw how well THAT worked!
[...] thus is on the hook for every embarrassment it has spawned: the fake Congressional Districts, the checks to the deceased, the attempt to shackle Virginia with long-term spending obligations, and just about anything Joe [...]
[...] thus is on the hook for every embarrassment it has spawned: the fake Congressional Districts, the checks to the deceased, the attempt to shackle Virginia with long-term spending obligations, and just about anything Joe [...]
[...] other words, Ms. Ball is fully behind the fake Congressional Districts, the checks to the deceased, the attempt to shackle Virginia with long-term spending obligations, and $100 billion in [...]
[...] other words, Ms. Ball is fully behind the fake Congressional Districts, the checks to the deceased, the attempt to shackle Virginia with long-term spending obligations, and $100 billion in [...]
[...] other words, Ms. Ball is fully behind the fake Congressional Districts, the checks to the deceased, the attempt to shackle Virginia with long-term spending obligations, and $100 billion in [...]