WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Almost nine years after Congress enacted a law to protect seniors from improper Social Security payments, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is finally taking steps to implement it. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the SSA proposed a rule to combat improper payments through use of a payroll information exchange:
"Seniors and people with disabilities should not be on the hook for avoidable improper payments made by the Social Security Administration. Yet the delay in implementing the use of a payroll information exchange to combat such improper payments has c...