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Feds Collecting Parents' Alleged Debts from Children

Jack Hays

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Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts - The Washington Post

Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check.


The Treasury Department has intercepted $1.9 billion in tax refunds already this year — $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years, said Jeffrey Schramek, assistant commissioner of the department’s debt management service. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.:peace
 
I find it a little disturbing that they would go after people who MAY have received benefits as minors (or who never received benefits at all) because the government screwed up.
 
I find it a little disturbing that they would go after people who MAY have received benefits as minors (or who never received benefits at all) because the government screwed up.

One would think by now that the government would learn that doing these sorts of stupid things is a good way to get stung by lots of very unhappy people.
 
This doesn't seem legal to me. Debts tend to be forgiven upon death unless your next of kin is attached to the accounts. Damn, the big bad evil greedy corporations don't even do this.
 
Kids are not liable for their parent's debts. It is that simple.
 
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts - The Washington Post

Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check.


The Treasury Department has intercepted $1.9 billion in tax refunds already this year — $75 million of that on debts delinquent for more than 10 years, said Jeffrey Schramek, assistant commissioner of the department’s debt management service. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.:peace

Anybody who lets the government take their money all year long and then give it back with no interest get every thing they deserve.
 
This is no surprise. We have one of the stupidest civil services in the Western world because we've rejected hiring on merit and instead use the civil service as a dumping ground for affirmative action:

The United States Civil service exams have since been abolished for many positions, since statistics show that they do not accurately allow hiring of minorities according to the affirmative action guidelines.​

Daily tales of idiocy of this grade don't happen in other nations. They actually have a civil service which is competent.

Who in the Federal Government thought that going after the children of dead people for 30 year old over-payments was a good idea?
 
We voted for it and it's about to get much worse. All this free government (health care, welfare, unemployment, medicaid, minimum wage, war on women, etc.) isn't free. Retirement accounts are next. They'll slip in one sentence taxing retirement accounts and your lifetime's work will be gone in an instant. Keep up the good work liberals.

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This doesn't seem legal to me. Debts tend to be forgiven upon death unless your next of kin is attached to the accounts. Damn, the big bad evil greedy corporations don't even do this.

Debts are not forgiven upon death.
 
Who in the Federal Government thought that going after the children of dead people for 30 year old over-payments was a good idea?

The parent received the SS on behalf of and for the benefit of the children. That's why.
 
Kids are not liable for their parent's debts. It is that simple.

That's the OLD way of doing things. The IRS is just getting ahead of the curve here seeing as all the debt our parents and grandparents racked up our kids grand kids are gonna be paying off. So... this makes perfect sense to me.
 
This is no surprise. We have one of the stupidest civil services in the Western world because we've rejected hiring on merit and instead use the civil service as a dumping ground for affirmative action:

The United States Civil service exams have since been abolished for many positions, since statistics show that they do not accurately allow hiring of minorities according to the affirmative action guidelines.​



Daily tales of idiocy of this grade don't happen in other nations. They actually have a civil service which is competent.

Who in the Federal Government thought that going after the children of dead people for 30 year old over-payments was a good idea?

Oh that'd piss me off, my mother passed in 83, and I know dad got some kinda SS payment for us kids till we were 18 (that's why I'm Texas born with a North Carolina SS Number... mom passed away at the base hospital Seymour-Johnson) that would just irk the crap out of me the IRS decides that there was an over payment
 
Does it work both ways? If the government owed my grandfather a pile of cash, could I collect with interest?

Could I work through my great-grandfather's tax returns to see if he missed any deductions and collect with interest?

If my great-great-grandfather was eligible for a farming subsidy, could I apply for it now with interest?

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