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On Purpose: Obama’s Labor Dept “Overpaid” $14 Billion in Unemployment Benefits

On Purpose: Obama's Labor Dept "Overpaid" $14 Billion in Unemployment Benefits

On Purpose: Obama’s Labor Dept “Overpaid” $14 Billion in Unemployment Benefits

Obama’s Labor Department overpaid unemployment benefits in 2011 by over $14 Billion! Purposefully? We think so!

It is completely unbelievable that this was an accident, and we feel that this was a calculated “mistake” designed to further enslave the people who rely on their unemployment benefits to get by, and keep them firmly in the Democrat’s fold.

It’s really the same thing as the government bailouts and other Obama scams and scandals like Solyndra and other “green energy” scams that were designed to line the pockets of Obama’s friends and supporters.

Don’t spend that unemployment check too fast. The government might ask you to pay it back.

Overpayments are a rampant problem in the unemployment insurance system. The federal government and states overpaid an estimated $14 billion in benefits in fiscal 2011, or roughly 11% of all the jobless benefits paid out, according to reports from the U.S. Labor Department.

Of the states, Indiana was the worst offender, making more improper payments than it did correct ones.

Now, the

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Government Paid $600 Million In Benefits To Dead People

This wasted $600 million of taxpayer money, being paid out to people who are no longer alive, is just a tiny drop in the overflowing sea of typical government corruption and waste.

It’s not their money, so none of the inept jackasses in our government care enough to stop the waste and crime, which some of them may have personally benefitted from.

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported, according to the report this week from the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general, Patrick McFarland.

In one case, the son of a beneficiary continued receiving payments for 37 years after his father’s death in 1971. The payments – totaling more than $515,000 – were only discovered when the son died in 2008.

The government has been aware of the problem since a

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