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

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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 ...