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Last updated on Friday, March 18, 2016
(INDIANAPOLIS) - Indiana Senator Dan Coats highlighted $27.6 million dollars in federal payments made to dead people during his weekly “Waste of the Week” speech.
A Government Accountability Office report found that, between 2008 and 2012, the United States Department of Agriculture made $27.6 million in payments for conservation, disaster relief and crop subsidies to dead people.
Coats says all federal payments should be matched against the Master Death File, a list maintained by the Social Security Administration, to ensure that only people who are alive and eligible actually receive benefits.
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