House members faulted agency for issuing billions of dollars of payments in error then demanding money back, often long after it was received.
The head of the Social Security Administration said Wednesday the agency has been sending about 1 million people a year notices that they were paid benefits to which they were not entitled and that she has ordered a 'top-to-bottom, comprehensive review' of how the agency deals with such overpayments.
Kijakazi was asked when certain automation projects would be completed but did not say. She said she would follow up.The agency estimated that, in the 2021 fiscal year, it overpaid people by $6 billion and underpaid people by $1.4 billion, according to a November report by the agency's inspector general.The agency ended the 2022 fiscal year with a cumulative total of $21.6 billion in overpayments uncollected, the report said.
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