Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says

[Chris_]

Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says

The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report.

In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management has made more than $601 million in benefits payments to deceased federal annuitants, according to the agency’s inspector general. Total annual payouts range between $100 million and $150 million.

Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland, who previously reported on the improper payments in 2005 and 2008, urged OPM to more closely track such mistakes.

Washington Post

And liberals want Uncle Sam to run your local doctor's office along with everything else. 

[RightCoast]

Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland, who previously reported on the improper payments in 2005 and 2008, urged OPM to more closely track such mistakes.

HOW ABOUT FIXING THE F***ING PROBLEM!

[Chris_]

That would be too much trouble.  The obvious answer is to add more full-time unionized federal employees to the payroll to monitor and review payments.

[DLR Pyro]

Washington Post

And liberals want Uncle Sam to run your local doctor's office along with everything else.  

 if obama care gets implemented, the govt will be wasting millions of tax dollars on healthcare for already deceased people.

[DumbAss Tanker]

SS, IRS, Medicare/MedicAid, military, and OPM databases do need to be integrated instead of each working in a vacuum, but if they are going to screw up, I'd prefer for the errors to be on the side of paying benefits rather than stiffing some poor bastard for his retirement check and then making him prove to their satisfaction that he really is alive despite what their records show, when the records 'Couldn't possibly be wrong,' like all screwed-up government records.

[zeitgeist]

And I knew some under who's nostrils it was necessary to put a mirror to ensure they were actually alive while at work. But they too receied a check every week.  When the agency was severely downsized productivity actually improved.  Guess it must have been because of better parking availability.