The SSA has lowered its estate recovery threshold from $5,000 to $3,000, enabling collection of smaller amounts in certain ...

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

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 ...

Social Security overpayments often follow changes in income, marital status or disability status.

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.

To that end, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is going after overpayments more aggressively. In March, it announced plans to withhold 100% of benefits, if needed, to recoup overpaid funds.

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 ...

In March, President Trump reinstated the 100% overpayment recovery rate that had been in place prior to 2024. This enabled the Social Security Administration to withhold all of a person's future ...

A recent shift in how the Social Security Administration handles benefit overpayments may offer partial relief — but it still ...

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 March, President Trump reinstated the 100% overpayment recovery rate that had been in place prior to 2024. This enabled the Social Security Administration to withhold all of a person's future ...