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Denise Woods is one of millions who have been targeted in the Social Security Administration s attempt to claw back billions of dollars it says was wrongly sent to beneficiaries. Cox Media Group hoka schuhe Mo air force 1 re than a year after the federal government first cut off her disability benefits, Denise Woods drives nightly to strip malls, truck stops, and parking lots around Savannah, Georgia, looking for a safe place to sleep in her Chevy.Woods, 51, said she had rented a three-bedroom house she shared with her adult son and grandson until March 2022, when the government terminated her disability payments without notice.According to letters sent by the Social Security Administration, the agency determined it had been overpaying Woods and demanded she send back nearly $58,000.Woods couldn t come up with the money. So, until February 2026, the agency is withholding the $2,048 in disability she would have received each month. I still don t know how it happened, said Woods, who has requested a waiver and is seeking a hearing. No one will give me answers. It takes weeks or months to get a caseworker on the phone. They have made my life unbearable. Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, told a congressional subcommittee in October that her agency notifies recipients when they have received overpayments and works to he crocs winterstiefel lp those who want to establish repayment plans or who seek waiver of the debt. But relief from Iang Police identify hikers, aged 20 and 23, drowned at Rainbow Falls
By Kevin G. Hall and David LightmanMcClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON - A wildly unpopular government rescue program credited by economists with preventing another Great Depression will go out of business Sunday, two years to the day it was created.On Oct. 3, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as the bank bailout bill, loses authorization to make new expenditures. From that point forward, TARP will be in wind-down mode, although much of money len stanley cup t out already has been repaid - at a profit for taxpayers.Originally envisioned as a blank check for the government to spend as much as $700 billion to rescue the financial system, the actual cost to taxpayers is estimated now to be onl stanley cup y a seventh of that amount. The government has earned almost $13 billion in dividends from the bank stock it received in exchange for the taxpayers investment, an stanley mugs d earned another $8.2 billion from the sale of preferred stock.The Treasury Department estimates that taxpayers are still on the hook for about $100 billion at this point - a number expected to shrink with continued repayments and asset sales. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently put the estimated total TARP cost at around $66 billion.Thursday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the latest internal estimates put the number under $50 billion.Still, TARP became politically poisonous. People considered it free money for Wall Street executives whose recklessness dragged the world into the Great Recession. Now those exe