The Social Security Administration (SSA) has revised its estate recovery policy, reducing the threshold for recovering ...

To that end, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going after overpayments more aggressively. In March, it announced ...

If you receive more money than expected from your Social Security payment, don't assume it's a gift from the Social Security Administration. More than likely, you received an overpayment due to ...

Social Security beneficiaries who were mistakenly overpaid will now have 50% of their monthly check withheld until all the ...

Clawbacks from monthly benefit checks after the discovery of overpayments have just been reduced to 50% from 100%, after having been boosted to 100% from 10% earlier this year.

As of May 6, 2025, the SSA limits Social Security overpayment clawbacks to 50% of monthly benefits. Here's what you need to ...

The Social Security Administration is retreating from a recent policy change on the agency recovering overpayments that sparked concerns it could cause financial hardship for tens of thousands of ...

President Trump reinstated the 100% Social Security overpayment recovery rate in March. In April, he dropped this rate to 50%. You have options if you cannot afford to lose half your checks due to ...

WASHINGTON -- A month after making a drastic change to how overpayments on Social Security benefits are collected, the Social Security Administration has backtracked on the plan. In an ...

In 2024, the Biden administration reduced the Social Security overpayment recovery rate to the greater of $10 or 10% of your checks. For example, if you received $1,000 in extra Social Security ...

Social Security overpayments can happen in a few ways ... But if you got a job and didn't notify the administration about it, you may receive an overpayment. Another way overpayments could ...