Two House lawmakers blasted a federal program this week for sending over $100 million to deceased Americans.
The lawmakers sent the letter to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Gordon Hartogensis after money given to his federal group under the American Rescue Plan Act was misspent.
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good, R-VA., led the letter.
According to the lawmakers, $127 million went to the Central States Pension Fund, taxpayer dollars that were paid out for people who are no longer alive.
Now the issue is under investigation, but the lawmakers said that the agency has not explained how the overpayments happened or done enough to recover them.
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