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The Social Security Administration has demanded money back from more than 2 million people a year — more than twice as many people as the head of the  agency disclosed at an October congressional hearing.

That's according to a document KFF Health News and Cox Media Group obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Kilolo Kijakazi read aloud from the document during the hearing but repeatedly left out an entire category of beneficiaries displayed on the paper as well.

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