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There is something very creepy about this, and if you're targeted, you're screwed:
- The New Progressive Meme: Stop Worrying About The Debt
From what USED to be the slightly left of center New Republic:Obama Beat the Hostage-Takers. Now He Has to Fight the Fiscal Scolds.The fecklessness of Washington’s professional budget alarmistsThey’re back! Barely had Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell announced...
- In Which Case You Will See Me And Millions Of Others In Front Of Your House
Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get CutThe Social Security Administration has begun warning the public it cannot guarantee full benefit payments if the debt ceiling isn’t increased.The warning was assembled after the agency consulted...
- Are You Kidding Me?
MR, this one is going to piss you off royally! From this source (hat tip to Randy's Roundtable):Government overpaid $14 billion in unemployment benefits Don't spend that unemployment check too fast. The government might ask you to pay it back....
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Fed Passes China as Top Owner of U.S. Debt From Will at The Other News: In the period since the Federal Reserve announced in November that it intended to buy $600 billion in U.S. government debt by the end of this June, the Fed has surpassed mainland...
- The Dreaded Birth Certificate
It’s a subject we rarely discuss here. And for good reason, I think. This is one for the courts. To me it’s a legitimate question that should be asked. But it should be played out in the courts. When we allow it to be OJ’ed (I coined it! I coined...
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The Long Arm Of The Federal Government
There is something very creepy about this, and if you're targeted, you're screwed:
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debtsRead the rest HERE.
A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government — a very old debt.
When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Mary’s money, rather than her surviving siblings’, is a mystery.
Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check.
The Treasury Department has intercepted $1.9 billion in tax refunds already this year — $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years, said Jeffrey Schramek, assistant commissioner of the department’s debt management service. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.
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Social Security officials told Grice that six people — Grice, her four siblings and her father’s ex-wife, whom she never knew — had received benefits under her father’s account. The government doesn’t look into exactly who got the overpayment; the policy is to seek compensation from the oldest sibling and work down through the family until the debt is paid.
The Federal Trade Commission, on its Web site, advises Americans that “family members typically are not obligated to pay the debts of a deceased relative from their own assets.” But Social Security officials say that if children indirectly received assistance from public dollars paid to a parent, the children’s money can be taken, no matter how long ago any overpayment occurred....
- The New Progressive Meme: Stop Worrying About The Debt
From what USED to be the slightly left of center New Republic:Obama Beat the Hostage-Takers. Now He Has to Fight the Fiscal Scolds.The fecklessness of Washington’s professional budget alarmistsThey’re back! Barely had Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell announced...
- In Which Case You Will See Me And Millions Of Others In Front Of Your House
Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get CutThe Social Security Administration has begun warning the public it cannot guarantee full benefit payments if the debt ceiling isn’t increased.The warning was assembled after the agency consulted...
- Are You Kidding Me?
MR, this one is going to piss you off royally! From this source (hat tip to Randy's Roundtable):Government overpaid $14 billion in unemployment benefits Don't spend that unemployment check too fast. The government might ask you to pay it back....
-
Fed Passes China as Top Owner of U.S. Debt From Will at The Other News: In the period since the Federal Reserve announced in November that it intended to buy $600 billion in U.S. government debt by the end of this June, the Fed has surpassed mainland...
- The Dreaded Birth Certificate
It’s a subject we rarely discuss here. And for good reason, I think. This is one for the courts. To me it’s a legitimate question that should be asked. But it should be played out in the courts. When we allow it to be OJ’ed (I coined it! I coined...