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Internal agency records show the head of the agency provided Congress with a smaller subset of beneficiaries when asked about the total number of people impacted by overpayments.
More than 2 million people a year have been sent notices that Social Security overpaid them and demanding they repay the money. That’s twice as many as the head of Social Security disclosed at a congressional hearing in October.
At issue is the scope of a problem that has terrified many Social Security beneficiaries and plunged them into financial distress.
Social Security Administration Kilolo Kijakazi omitted numbers from Supplemental Security Income program for seniors with little or no income who are blind or otherwise disabled.