Uncle Sam, always generous to a fault with taxpayers' money, doled out about $108 billion in Social Security benefits to the dead in 2012. Give or take a few billion, over a decade that's about $1 trillion going to folks who crossed the River Styx. Or more likely their kin, who may or may not take portions of the proceeds to decorate their loved ones' graves.

The Washington Times reported on Friday that the Social Security Administration does a spotty job tracking Social Security recipients' deaths, hence the dollars for the dead.

Reports the Times:

"Because SSA does not verify death reports from sources it considers most accurate, the agency risks having erroneous information in its death data, such as including living individuals or not including deceased individuals," it said.

You mean a federal government agency is utterly incompetent in managing the people's money? On the other hand, who'd ever go to the "most accurate" sources to verify Social Security recipients' deaths? That's too... sensible.

Again, from the Times:

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I am not sure what the problem is. If the dead can vote why can't they draw SS? Besides we can make up for any losses in SS by cutting veteran's benefits.