AARP: Stimulus payments sent to dead people. $1.4 B worth. 😠

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3. Seriously - What Does This Mean?....

How do they know now that they sent stimulus payments to dead people? How did they just find out now and not before these were sent?

I don't think they sent cash. If they sent checks - they can't be cashed. The person it was sent to is dead.

I suppose if they made an automatic deposit to a bank account some of their bank accounts might still be open. When my mother passed I kept a joint bank account I shared with her open for a year just in case any lingering bills came up.

I suppose if a person died from Covid - a check might have gone to them in the transition.

But really 1.1 million dead people? That money must be recoverable.

Has anyone said how this will be dealt with?

I'll volunteer to work on the recovery of this money if I can get a 10% finders/recovery fee.

Just thinking about this maybe that's a scam that Trump & the Repugs had in mind. They probably awarded a contract for such a deal to one of Trump's cronies already. Trump will probably get a kickback.

Who's checking on this?

How do they recover Social Security money that is automatcally deposited - when they find out a person died in the interim?