The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs incorrectly gave veterans about $5 billion more in disability compensation and ...

Universal credit claimants incurred more than £490m in debt last year due to hundreds of thousands of errors made by the ...

The Social Security Administration is about to get a new commissioner, but that’s only the latest of a series of changes at ...

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Potential employee wants to know if he can get probation period and annual leave changed Question: A company offered me a job. My question is, according to the labour law, do I have the right to ...

The SSA is required by federal law to recover overpayments, but the rate at which the money is repaid is not set by law. When an overpayment is discovered, the beneficiary receives a letter ...

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 ...

The emergency message to SSA staff said the new policy applies to overpayment notices sent on or after April 25. In one place, the message said the new withholding rate will be “up to 50 percent.” ...

The SSA press office did not respond to questions for this article. The emergency message to SSA staff said the new policy applies to overpayment notices sent on or after April 25. In one place, the ...

The emergency message to SSA staff said the new policy applies to overpayment notices sent on or after April 25. In one place, the message said the new withholding rate will be “up to 50 percent.” ...