Covid relief payments weren’t supposed to cost people their Social Security benefits, but some recipients say they did. Senators want to know why.
A group of U.S. senators is demanding answers from the Social Security Administration to address why the agency, in violation of its own policy, has been reducing and suspending people’s benefits because of the money they received as covid-19 relief payments.
The covid relief, known as stimulus or economic impact payments, left some recipients with more money in the bank than the $2,000 asset limit for individuals receiving benefits through a Social Security program called Supplemental Security Income. As a result, the Social Security Administration has sent some people notices alleging they were overpaid and demanding they repay the government, according to people affected.That wasn’t supposed to happen.
“We sent it because ... it’s not right that Social Security made a mistake, and the beneficiary shouldn’t have to pay for that mistake,” Brown, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security, said Thursday in an interview with CMG’s WHIO-TV in Dayton.
“Further,” they wrote, “losing SSI eligibility risks a lengthy and bureaucratic process to restore eligibility and also risks beneficiaries’ access to Medicaid coverage.”
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