Stimulus Checks Sent to the Dead
From an article in The Wall Street Journal by Louise Radnofsky
The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people — but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general’s report has found.
The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009. Most of the payments were made in May 2009.
The inspector general found that about 72,000 payments were sent by electronic-transfer and as checks to people who would have qualified to receive them — had they still been alive. The report said that of these payments, about 55,000 were sent because the recipients had died recently, and the Social Security Administration had not been informed of their deaths by states, families or funeral homes at the time the payments were sent. The remaining 17,000 of the mistaken payments were attributed to the SSA failing to properly process death records that it did have.
Part of me wonders why this is even news, it just seems like the status quo to me.
Tax Pledge Petition
John Kasich and Mary Taylor have pledged to not raise taxes when they lead the State of Ohio. They understand that higher taxes will cause Ohio to lose even more jobs than it has already under Ted Strickland.
Why hasn’t Ted Strickland made the same pledge? Because Ted Strickland is a serial tax-raiser.
Ted Strickland supported the 1993 Clinton tax increase, raised Ohioans’ taxes last year by $840 million and refuses to rule it out again.
The fear of another tax increase is keeping Ohio businesses from being able to commit to investments in job creation or expansion.
Why won’t Ted Strickland rule out another jobs-killing tax increase?
Tell Ted Strickland that Ohio can’t take another jobs-killing tax increase.
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