Figures. Democrats Reward Another Voting Bloc – Send Stimulus Checks to Dead People
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 7, 2010, 2:26 PM
Whoever said the Obama-Pelosi Stimulus Bill was just a massive kickback to their supporters was correct.
Democrats even sent Stimulus checks to dead people.
The Washington Wire reported:
The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people — but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general’s report has found.
The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009. Most of the payments were made in May 2009.
The inspector general found that about 72,000 payments were sent by electronic-transfer and as checks to people who would have qualified to receive them — had they still been alive. The report said that of these payments, about 55,000 were sent because the recipients had died recently, and the Social Security Administration had not been informed of their deaths by states, families or funeral homes at the time the payments were sent. The remaining 17,000 of the mistaken payments were attributed to the SSA failing to properly process death records that it did have.
Another 17,000 payments went to recipients who were in prison at the time the payment was made in May 2009. However, not all of those payments were necessarily against the letter of the law. While lawmakers intended to prevent payments to people in prison, the law included only a provision prohibiting payments to people incarcerated in the three months before the plan was passed — from November 2008 through January 2009.
No wonder two-thirds of Americans believe the Stimulus was a waste.
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Ellie Light commented:
What about me and my family of 28 here at St Luke’s Cementary? We didn’t get any checks!
And the ACORN people registered all of us.
Freddy commented:
They were probably using the voter roles to distribute checks.
squeaky commented:
Freddy
October 7th, 2010 | 3:02 pm | #3
what i thought. a woman dead 40 years had a check sent to her and you’d have to wonder about an account closed for so long suddenly receiving a check.
http://www.wbaltv.com/r/19435100/detail.html
there was also a man who complained about a deceased relative who received a check although he only lived in the states briefly and died in italy [never contributing to the system].
if relatives are cashing the checks of deceased
that’s one thing, but longterm inactive accounts.
Googy commented:
Take all americans’ money and then OBama sends it directly to his supporters. Cannot get more criminal than that. That is high-crimes and punishable by death, according to the CONstatution.
AuntieMadder commented:
The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people — but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general’s report has found.
The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009.
This is misleading. I’m not saying it’s incorrect. All the stimulus checks sent came to $13 billion. They didn’t say that the $13 billion were sent to dead people. But the text flows as if that’s what’s meant.
Just so you know, 89,000 checks at $250 each totals $22,250,000. I don’t condone giving millions to dead people. But millions aren’t billions.
aro5o75 commented:
I’m more amused at the idea that $250 is a stimulus.
Militant Conservative commented:
I voted early and I want to see if the system will reject me from voting on election day. LOL
Yes, I will test the system. If allowed I vote twice. At the least I am told no. Use the lefts tactics against them. powder is dry.
Bill Fabrizio commented:
There is a bigger problem here. If the social security administration sent 89,000 stimulus checks to dead and incarcerated people that means they are sending monthly social security payments to those same 89,000 people. And if only half are being returned then half are being cashed by ghosts and crooks.
What a great country! Clearly, we need more government!
DaveinPhoenix commented:
The way things are going, the dead just may end up being the Democrats biggest voting block….I guess they deserve something in return
kato commented:
The recipients may be dead, but there’ll be some living parasite who’ll make use of that money.
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
The idea of a $250 stimulus check is a buy-out for seniors to vote for the party of entitlements, the Democrat/Progressive Party.
thomas mc donnell commented:
they take money from people that worked for it to give to people in jail. now thats social justice.
Chris commented:
Igor! Connect the electrodes to stimulate our latest corpse (not corps!!) creation!
*bzzt, zap, sizzle, snap!*
Ah HAH! It’s alive! it’s alive!
Now, my stimulated stiff, off to the polling station with you, and quickly! Remember, vote early and vote often my child!
Oh, the marvels of science! Stimulated voters on demand!
Now, where did I put the paperwork for that next government grant…..?
msw commented:
Curious, why you don’t mention that this was happening prior to Obama taking office.
From the Washington Examiner:
The government sent benefit checks to 20,000 departed Americans over three years, totaling more than $180 million — a remarkable number that provoked the Obama administration to create a government-wide “do not pay” list as part of its brainstorming for ways to save taxpayer money.
Once the database is up and running, agencies will have to search it before sending out payments. A pre-check check, so to speak.
“We’re making sure that payments no longer go to the deceased — it sounds ridiculous even to say it,” acknowledged Vice President Joe Biden in describing the database.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ap/96655639.html
So the Obama administration found the problem and is trying to stop it. Perhaps you should update your post for accuracy.
msw commented:
Comment #18. Please read comment 17. Respond with facts, not slogans or emotional rampage.
This was happening under Bush, was identified and is being fixed by Obama yet you rave on. Why? And Why no correction by the blogger?
No honesty, no integrity, just fiction and lies.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Stimulus checks went to a bunch of dead people?
Probably a token of appreciation by our Prog-Lib Democrats, since so many folks from the “dead-citizen community” turned out to vote them into office…
Heh.