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Social Security is trying to reclaim billions of dollars from many of the nation's poorest and most vulnerable.
During the 2022 fiscal year , the agency clawed back $4.7 billion of overpayments, while another $21.6 billion remained outstanding.
" Social Security should be to help people, not to destroy them," an aunt says.
The Social Security Administration blames itself for the problem.
Social Security clawbacks involve payments under other programs with complicated eligibility requirements.
Most of the overpayments involve the Supplemental Security Income program, which provides money to people who are disabled, blind, or at least 65 .
The agency said it would recoup the $ 27,000 by deducting $ 91.40 from each of her future checks.
"When I die, my daughter will have no money to bury me," one woman says.
The Social Security Administration is "non-responsive to the public at this point due to understaffing," a union leader says.
The agency is trying to collect the money from Hubbard 's mother, who is unable to manage his benefits.
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