Social Security Mistakenly Paid $31M

[Azraele]

Oops.




<< WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security (news - web sites) paid $31 million through the end of last year to. . . >>

 

[frizzlefry]

bump for ya ta get the top spot....

 

[etech]

I'll add another one of this type.

dailynews.yahoo.com

Up to 40,000 U.S. Tax Returns Lost

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

<< In most cases, they involve people who had joint bank accounts with the dead beneficiaries and converted the Social Security checks to their own use. >>


This brings up a very ethical question. If you're recently deceased spouse kept getting checks, would you keep them?

 

[chuckieland]

moral is no, to return the money that is not belong to you
but 95% of people would keep it anyway