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More stunning news has emerged from cable television’s most left-wing network.
During a Tuesday segment on “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” a reporter revealed that an inspector general audit last year showed that the Social Security Administration had made tens of billions of improper payments over the last eight years.
“There was an inspector general audit last year,” the reporter began before a screenshot of SSA waste appeared on the screen, “that showed over an eight-year period that the Social Security Administration made almost $72 billion in improper payments, a little less than 1% of payments in that period.”
The audit the reporter was referring to came from an August 2024 *report* <oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/2024-08-19-ig-reports-nearly-72-billion-improperly-paid-recommended-improvements-go-unimplemented/> detailing that these overpayments occurred from FYs 2015 through 2022. $23 billion still remains unrecovered.
Unsurprisingly, the reporter tried to play down the findings while also trying to debunk DOGE, noting that most of the improper payments were simply from SSA paying too much.
“Now, the report also says most of these improper payments were overpayments, not payments to deceased people or people who didn’t qualify to receive these payments, he added. “At the same time, Jose, this effort by DOGE is to go through this agency like every other and try to weed out waste and fraud.”
Hearing this damning information regarding SS waste and fraud left Diaz-Balart shocked.
More stunning news has emerged from cable television’s most left-wing network.
During a Tuesday segment on “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” a reporter revealed that an inspector general audit last year showed that the Social Security Administration had made tens of billions of improper payments over the last eight years.
“There was an inspector general audit last year,” the reporter began before a screenshot of SSA waste appeared on the screen, “that showed over an eight-year period that the Social Security Administration made almost $72 billion in improper payments, a little less than 1% of payments in that period.”
The audit the reporter was referring to came from an August 2024 *report* <oig.ssa.gov/news-releases/2024-08-19-ig-reports-nearly-72-billion-improperly-paid-recommended-improvements-go-unimplemented/> detailing that these overpayments occurred from FYs 2015 through 2022. $23 billion still remains unrecovered.
Unsurprisingly, the reporter tried to play down the findings while also trying to debunk DOGE, noting that most of the improper payments were simply from SSA paying too much.
“Now, the report also says most of these improper payments were overpayments, not payments to deceased people or people who didn’t qualify to receive these payments, he added. “At the same time, Jose, this effort by DOGE is to go through this agency like every other and try to weed out waste and fraud.”
Hearing this damning information regarding SS waste and fraud left Diaz-Balart shocked.