Sen. John Kennedy (R- LA) “It’s pretty simple: Don’t pay dead people.” – IOTW Report

Sen. John Kennedy (R- LA) “It’s pretty simple: Don’t pay dead people.”

FOX: After admitting to spending nearly a decade fraudulently cashing her dead mother’s Social Security checks, Pamela Thompson, 63, of Algiers, Louisiana, was sentenced in February to three years probation and restitution of $297,325 for theft of government services.

Death can be lucrative. Similar crimes may not be that difficult for fraudsters because of faulty government tracking of which beneficiaries are still alive. Audits have found federal agencies doling out millions in taxpayer dollars to dead people.

Referring to a case in his state, a lead co-sponsor of a bill to curb fraudulent payments, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said the near $300,000, “never should have been sent in the first place.”

“It’s pretty simple: Don’t pay dead people,” Kennedy said in a statement.

Kennedy and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., introduced the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act in February.  more here

16 Comments on Sen. John Kennedy (R- LA) “It’s pretty simple: Don’t pay dead people.”

  1. Defrauding a Fraudulent Scheme is Fraud?

    What a crock of shit.

    So, only the FedGov has the *right* to perpetrate fraud? Not the people for whom the FedGov is (allegedly) employed?

    What a crock of shit.

    izlamo delenda est …

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  2. My sister was a funeral director. The reason dead people continue getting social security checks is a few years ago the government stopped paying funeral directors $50 to report a death. Now the government relies on family members to report the death.

    Brilliant way to save money!

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  3. After admitting to spending nearly a decade fraudulently cashing her dead mother’s Social Security checks, Pamela Thompson, 63, of Algiers, Louisiana, was sentenced in February to three years probation and restitution of $297,325 for theft of government services.

    Suh-weeeeeet. Probation, and she probably won’t live long enough to pay it back. And about the only thing SS.gov can do is garnishee HER SS check when she turns 66.

    @ Page O. Turner, I was executor for my Mom’s estate in 1986, and I wondered who ratted me out to SS about her death; I don’t remember doing that.

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  4. My wife’s mom died just before Christmas last year. My wife was very proactive and spent hours on the phone and in person at the local SS office. She also alerted the bank where her mom’s checks were deposited electronically. Even at that, SS managed to send the January direct deposit. However, SS did a reversal to remove the extraneous deposit.
    I can see how easy it would be with the electronic deposits to continue the payments for years. Just pull a Norman Bates and the sky’s the limit.

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  5. Nearly $300,000.00 in under 10 years? WTFO? That is $30,000.00 per year. Who the f#$% gets 30K/year on social security? I am smelling something rotten in dah gumbo, yawl.

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