Under President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the same mistakes are guaranteed to repeat themselves.
Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), told Just The News, that,
[T]he problem that caused the money to go to these people last time has not been fixed, and it’s a relatively simple fix. The Social Security Administration has what’s called the master death file. It is not shared with the Internal Revenue Service, it is shared with other agencies, but not the one where you would really want it to be shared, which is the IRS.And there has been legislation to change that, because apparently it requires a law for one agency to share information with another. And if they don’t fix that, which I do not see in this 1,000-plus page bill, they are going to once again send checks out to dead people.
CAGW’s goal is to “eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in government.”
Schatz explains that these direct payments are based off of previously filed tax returns.
So if somebody paid taxes two years ago, or last year, and has now passed away, that check is going to show up. And of course, there’s fraud related to that as well, people keeping the names of their deceased relatives or parents or siblings and just collecting checks, and they would qualify too, unfortunately.
A similar issue occurred with the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 under Obama-Biden. Almost 90,000 checks were sent to those either incarcerated or deceased.
It’s not just the stimulus checks, it’s other payments that go to people who are deceased, because again, they don’t have a complete and full accounting of information not just at the federal level, but sometimes states have information that doesn’t get up to the federal level about people who have passed away as well. It’s a matter of management — mismanagement, really.
Tom Schatz
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More bureaucratic bungling as usual. What else is new under the sun?
So now we are expected to have more unpayable debt that will be printed, and instead of taking the time to make a simple fix, more money will go to dead people. Money a lot of people desperately need. But since when does the government actually care for its people?
And WinePress readers already know the drill: a bulk of those that get these checks will waste it all on fancy shoes, flatscreens, video games, junk food, etc. When these checks come in, take that check and pay off debts, save it for the future, or spend it on something USEFUL.
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