Social Security scams are certainly not new, so receiving an unexpected email about your account can seem suspicious.

To that end, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going after overpayments more aggressively. In March, it announced ...

Now, the SSA has retreated from the March policy change and is now considering a clawback rate of 50%, according to their message. SSA still mum on reason for policy change However, SSA did not ...

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Millions of beneficiaries, including people struggling to get by on monthly checks, have received overpayment notices. Clawbacks have left some homeless.

Clawbacks from monthly benefit checks after the discovery of overpayments have just been reduced to 50% from 100%, after having been boosted to 100% from 10% earlier this year.

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On March 7, the federal agency announced it would reinstate the 100 percent withholding rate when attempting to get back incorrectly paid benefits.

In March, the Social Security Administration announced it would withhold 100% of monthly payments as part of a plan to claw back overpayments. But in an “emergency message” to staff last week ...

The emergency text messages sent out by the government are also only provided in Korean. The Seodaemun District office sent a link to the shuttle bus notice through an emergency message, but the ...