‘I see dead people’, 89,000 of them getting stimulus checks

89,000 stimulus checks were sent to dead people

Rick Moran

Hey! Anyone can make an honest mistake. After all, sometimes it's hard to tell if some people are dead or alive. If they're buried in Chicago cemeteries, it is especially difficult.
So let's cut the social security people a break, right?

Approximately $18 million worth of stimulus funds went to Americans who are dead, according to report released by the Social Security Administration's inspector general released Thursday.

More than 89,000 payments worth $250 each, taken from the $787 billion stimulus package, were doled out to either dead people or prison inmates. Seventeen thousand incarcerated Americans received an aggregate $4.3 million from the economic relief package.According to the report, the prisoners received the government money because they had been eligible for Social Security benefits before being sent to jail.