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Social Security Administration Ceases Old Debt Collection

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GETTY 41514 SSMoney?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1397569700413zimmytws/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — After objections by some taxpayers, the Social Security Administration has decided to stop trying to collect on taxpayers’ debts that are more than 10 years old.

Until now, the U.S. Treasury was seizing state and federal tax refunds that were due to be sent out to hundreds of thousands of people.

The Washington Post said the cases involved children of those who owed money because of over-payments of Social Security benefits.

Many of these debts were decades old. Some of the taxpayers who had their refunds seized said they had never heard of money being owed to the government.

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