
How To Cut Federal Spending? Lawmakers Say Stop Paying Dead People
“It’s unacceptable that the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in improper payments to deceased people,” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) says.

“It’s unacceptable that the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in improper payments to deceased people,” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) says.

In a letter to Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ben Sasse (R-NE), exclusively obtained by Breitbart News, the Social Security Administration (SSA) reveals that by the end of Fiscal Year 2014 the Obama administration “had issued approximately 541,000 original SSNs to individuals authorized to work under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy since its inception” in 2012.

A pair of Republican senators want to know how many illegal immigrants have been granted Social Security Numbers and whether amnestied illegal immigrants have applied for and received benefits under either the Social Security Disability Insurance program or the Supplemental Security Income program.