Under the leadership of a noted racial equity activist the Social Security Administration has mistakenly overpaid beneficiaries tens of billions of dollars, including a 65% spike in overpayments in one year.
In 2023 the agency with a stated mission of ensuring equity and accessibility by addressing systemic barriers to participation and a commitment to providing services to underserved communities made a whopping $23 billion in overpayments, according to its latest Agency Financial Report.
The figure is a marked increase over the already stunning $11.1 billion in overpayments that SSA erroneously made in 2022.
SSA's dreadful habit of overpaying billions in benefits goes back years as American taxpayers get stuck with the hefty price because most of the money is never recovered.
In the last few years, the agency has doled out between $6 billion and $7 billion in new overpayments annually, the new report reveals.
Kijakazi is a renowned racial equity proponent with a storied career of researching-and tackling-structural racism and the racial wealth gap in both government and high-profile nonprofits.
Buried deep in the exhaustive 216-page report the agency discloses the billions it has overpaid in the last few years despite establishing a special Improper Payment Prevention Team in 2019 tasked with developing strategies to determine the underlying cause of payment errors and developing corrective action plans.
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