Obama to agencies: Don’t pay dead people

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June 19, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s an idea, Uncle Sam: Stop writing checks to dead people.

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.

Read the whole story at Yahoo News

Corruption, Government Waste

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