Three Washington, D.C., residents have filed suit against the Social Security Administration and the IRS, claiming the agencies illegally confiscated 2013 tax refunds based on alleged overpayment of Social Security survivor benefits.
Those alleged overpayments extend back decades, to when the plaintiffs were children, according to a news release from the Legal Aid Society and McKenna, Long and Aldridge, attorneys for the plaintiffs.
Furthermore, at no time were the plaintiffs informed of the overpayments, meaning the claims could not be challenged, the lawyers said.
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