On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:01:05 -0500, dpb wrote:

But yet the SSA administers Social Security with an almost negligible
amount of overhead. A government program can work efficently, but the
devil is in the details.
...

Yeah, so efficiently they have thousands on the roles that have been
deceased, some for decades (GAO investigation I heard reported not long
ago)...

I don't doubt there's some fraud going on, but unless you can cite the
source I doubt it's in the thousands. And I mentioned low overhead which
you didn't seem to question.

I wonder if the costs of lowering the fraud rate would exceed the amount
that was saved?

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