{"id":21860,"date":"2023-09-29T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T14:17:10","slug":"social-security-overpayments-draw-scrutiny-and-outrage-from-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21860","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Overpayments Draw Scrutiny and Outrage From Members of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group for Kaiser Family Foundation Health News on September 29, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several members of Congress are calling on the Social Security Administration to answer for issuing billions of dollars of payments it says beneficiaries weren\u2019t entitled to receive \u2014 and then demanding the money back.<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/social-security-overpayments-investigation-congress-reaction\/\"> Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" style=\"width: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group for Kaiser Family Foundation Health News on September 29, 2023 Several<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[94,499],"class_list":["post-21860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-finance","tag-older-adults","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}