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I find it a little disturbing that they would go after people who MAY have received benefits as minors (or who never received benefits at all) because the government screwed up.
I find it a little disturbing that they would go after people who MAY have received benefits as minors (or who never received benefits at all) because the government screwed up.
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts - The Washington Post
Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check.
The Treasury Department has intercepted $1.9 billion in tax refunds already this year — $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years, said Jeffrey Schramek, assistant commissioner of the department’s debt management service. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.eace
This doesn't seem legal to me. Debts tend to be forgiven upon death unless your next of kin is attached to the accounts. Damn, the big bad evil greedy corporations don't even do this.
Who in the Federal Government thought that going after the children of dead people for 30 year old over-payments was a good idea?
Kids are not liable for their parent's debts. It is that simple.
This is no surprise. We have one of the stupidest civil services in the Western world because we've rejected hiring on merit and instead use the civil service as a dumping ground for affirmative action:
The United States Civil service exams have since been abolished for many positions, since statistics show that they do not accurately allow hiring of minorities according to the affirmative action guidelines.
Daily tales of idiocy of this grade don't happen in other nations. They actually have a civil service which is competent.
Who in the Federal Government thought that going after the children of dead people for 30 year old over-payments was a good idea?
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