{"id":409925,"date":"2026-07-23T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:26:11","slug":"treasury-flags-99-million-in-payments-to-deceased-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409925\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury flags $99 million in payments to deceased recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Treasury Department announced that its new verification process identified more than 4,900 government payments, worth about $99 million, intended for deceased recipients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This review covered over 885 million payments totaling approximately $2.77 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big picture: The flagged payments were returned to their originating federal agencies for further review before any funds were distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent highlighted the achievement as part of fulfilling President Trump\u2019s directive to curb improper payments and fraud before funds are released.<\/p>\n<p>The verification effort is also linked to Vice President JD Vance\u2019s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, aiming to close longstanding gaps in the federal payment system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving the news: The Treasury expanded fraud detection using its \u201cDo Not Pay\u201d program and advanced payment verification technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act was signed into law, granting the Treasury permanent access to the Social Security Administration\u2019s Full Death Master File for payment verification.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury initially accessed this database through a three-year pilot program authorized in 2021, which estimated $330 million in net benefits between 2024 and 2026 from reducing improper payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Treasury Department announced that its new verification process identified more than 4,900 government payments, worth about $99&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-409925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}