"The Social Security Administration's disability program loses billions of dollars through overpayments and payments to ineligible beneficiaries, the agency's Office of Inspector General found in a report issued this week.
The report, requested by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, estimated overpayments of $5.1 billion identified between October 2003 and November 2005. The SSA discovered $1.9 billion through normal reviews but failed to detect the other $3.2 billion.
There were also estimated annual benefits of $9.1 billion made to ineligible beneficiaries, of which $7 billion was stopped by normal processes but $2.1 billion was not detected."
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