GOVERMENT PAID $600 MILLION IN BENEFITS TO DEAD PEOPLE !!!!

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Posted by James Φοίνιξ on September 25, 2011 at 5:02pm

By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press



The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.





Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported, according to the report this week from the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general, Patrick McFarland.



In one case, the son of a beneficiary continued receiving payments for 37 years after his father's death in 1971. The payments - totaling more than $515,000 - were only discovered when the son died in 2008.