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Text about an employer demanding overpayment for 16 months from an employee with a history of hospital work and shifts. Text discussing overpayment issue due to misinformation about evening shift pay.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
In 2023, the Social Security Administration collected $4.9 billion in overpayments, and is going after another $23 billion from beneficiaries, according to KFF Health News. An investigation by KFF ...
The SSA sends overpayment notices to about one million Americans every year — and according to KFF Health News, the agency has admitted in the past that many overpayments were the result of ...
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
Sometimes overpayment of large sums can be the result of mistakenly adding an extra zero to your payment. But it is also a potential sign of refund fraud or even money laundering.
The overpayment amount is calculated as the difference between the amount that was paid and the amount for which the individual was eligible. [77] To avoid overpayments, individuals should make sure to comply with their reporting responsibilities (e.g., report any new income).
According to the SSA report, about $1.6 billion of the OASDI overpayments and $287 million of the SSI overpayments are within the agency’s control, meaning they weren’t the beneficiaries’ fault.