Quantum Windbag
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Gotta love the way government changes the rules to screw people over.
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents? decades-old debts - The Washington Post
A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grices tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government a very old debt. When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family its not sure who in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Marys money, rather than her surviving siblings, is a mystery.
Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about often a debt incurred by their parents the government has confiscated their check.
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents? decades-old debts - The Washington Post