WH Budget Chief: " I Hope Fewer People Get Social Security Disability Insurance"

[Stuart G]

153. That is an outright lie....Once under Bush..Social Security Department hadled

some sort of extra payment from the IRS..I don't remember too much about it, but at some point it came out that millions were sent to the wrong addresses . Social security did an investigation and found out the truth..Yes millions of dollars were sent to the wrong addresses, but those are the only addresses that the department had....Further, Hundreds of millions were send to the correct addresses. ...

It was later determined that Social Security department, got the amount of money sent, and the addresses correct, 98% of the time.. The media reported the earlier mistakes with fan fare....

The 98% number was in the back somewhere..Very few read about that. Here is the important point:::

......there is very little fraud in Social Security funding to recipients. Of course there is some, but as a total percent, it is very small. and has very little effect of the budget..actually none, since that money comes from a special fund that is not connected to the budget...