‘This is insane, $1.3 bn went to…’: Kennedy exposes US welfare system over payments to dead people

Описание: Senator John Kennedy’s quest to end payments to dead people heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature. It’s a bill that he sponsored that aims to end welfare payments to people who have passed away. Kennedy says up until a few years ago, the problem was very widespread. “In 2023 alone, for example, the federal government sent $1.3 billion to dead people,” Kennedy said. Kennedy says the catalyst behind this is the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, which gets updated anytime someone dies. “We found that Social Security was not sharing this information, the names of the folks on the Death Master File, with the rest of the federal government. One branch of government wasn’t talking to another branch of government,” Kennedy explained. Kennedy says the Social Security Administration told him that it was not at liberty to share that information with other government departments without congressional approval, so he passed a bill in 2023 that created a pilot program that allowed it to do just that. Kennedy says it’s been very effective. “Since December of 2023, this bill has saved the federal government at least $330 million in improper payments,” Kennedy noted. So Kennedy filed a follow-up bill to give the Social Security Administration permanent permission to share that information with other government agencies, and both houses of Congress have passed it.

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