The Government Will Take Your Money For Your Dead Parent's Debts

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21. You are correct

I found a better article at Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/social-security-treasury-target-hundreds-of-thousands-of-taxpayers-for-parents-old-debts/2014/04/10/74ac8eae-bf4d-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

the part that bothers me is that the government claims an overpayment and then when people ask for proof, they say they have nothing to show them...how then, can they claim anyone was overpaid? If they don't have records that show that?

And apparently the ten year statute of limitation being dropped was inserted into a farm bill three years ago, and nobody knows who did it? Huh?

There is a story of one man who admits he was overpaid, and they asked him in 1978 to repay $600 and he did. Now they just took almost $200 more money out of his tax return without any notice. He wants some kind of letter from them stating his debt has been paid in full, and they said they probably can't (won't) do that. This has got to be very frustrating. Who keeps records that far back?

I'm guessing they are going after money paid to children who were no longer eligible. But the way they are doing this is really not cool.