Deceased federal workers received federal benefits an average of seven years after they were dead.
The Social Security Administration has paid dead federal workers $1.7 million in recent years, with the deceased receiving benefits an average of seven years after their death, according to an agency watchdog.
An audit released by the agency’s inspector general Monday revealed that the Social Security Administration had not crosschecked beneficiaries’ deaths with the Office of Personnel Management, which manages federal employees.
Missing just 35 deaths cost taxpayers $1.7 million.
As of May, according to the Free Beacon, the agency has only been able to collect $112,557 out of the $1,720,464 paid to deceased federal workers.