内容摘要：Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car during the qualifying session of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car during the qualifying session of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A police officer escorts Andrew Tate from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism after prosecutors examined electronic equipment confiscated during the investigation in their case, in Bucharest, Romania, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre, File)A police officer escorts Andrew Tate from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism after prosecutors examined electronic equipment confiscated during the investigation in their case, in Bucharest, Romania, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre, File)

Andrew Tate checks his mobile phone inside the Court of Appeal building in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)Andrew Tate checks his mobile phone inside the Court of Appeal building in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)Tristan Tate, the brother of Andrew Tate, right, is checked upon arriving at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Tristan Tate, the brother of Andrew Tate, right, is checked upon arriving at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)Andrew Tate, center, and his brother Tristan, left, arrive at the Bucharest Tribunal in Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Andrew Tate, center, and his brother Tristan, left, arrive at the Bucharest Tribunal in Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Andrew Tate gestures, next to his brother Tristan, outside the Bucharest Tribunal in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)from Social Security’s inspector general states that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or less than 1% — in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.

In addition, in early January, the U.S. Treasury clawed backin a variety of federal payments— not just Social Security payments— that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that former Treasury official David Lebryk said was “just the tip of the iceberg.”

The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave thetemporary access to the