Social Security to restore stricter rules to recover overpayments starting this week

The Social Security Administration is reinstating more stringent rules beginning on Thursday to recover overpayments to beneficiaries — setting a 100% withholding rate for benefits until the overpayments are returned to the government. The strict order — part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to curb the spiraling costs of federal entitlement programs...