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The Department of Veterans Affairs hospital stands Wednesday, June 11, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. The director of the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System said Wednesday that it will soon receive as much as $15 million to address an audit showing long wait times for veterans. Juan Morales told reporters that the money will help pay for additional physician-support staff and fees that may be incurred if a veteran has to be sent to an outside provider. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, George Walker IV)

Social Security pays millions to people VA says are dead

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Social Security judge pleads guilty to taking bribes

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Kentucky lawyer pleads guilty in massive disability scheme

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Alabama inmate, woman indicted in fraud scheme

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Senate will consider blocking rule on guns and mentally ill

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS DEC. 31*In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 photo, Donna Dye, who is unemployed and whose husband is disabled, struggles to make loan payments on their home, in Minnie, Ky. Dye and her husband have been fighting the federal government to keep his Social Security disability checks after a local lawyer who helped them became the subject of a federal fraud investigation. (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks

By BY CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press

Maine senator eyes reducing Social Security wait times

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Judge: SSA used unconstitutional process in reviewing cases

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Journalists are reflected on the tombstone of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda after he was reburied at his home, now a museum, on Isla Negra, Chile, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Neruda's body was exhumed in 2013 for a fourth time in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how the poet died in the days after Chile's military coup. The results of the analysis will be delivered on May 5. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Government paid out benefits to deceased Americans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Handguns are displayed at the table of gun store owner David Petronis of Mechanicville, N.Y. as he holds a rifle during the annual New York State Arms Collectors Association Albany Gun Show in Albany, N.Y. (Associated Press)

Social Security moves to block mentally impaired from owning guns

By Stephen Dinan and Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks about gun violence at the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco on June 19, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama pushing for ‘largest gun grab in American history’: NRA

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md., is seen here on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

6.5M people with active Social Security numbers are 112 or older: IG

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 4, 1950, file photo, Ida May Fuller, 76, displays a Social Security check for $41.30 that she received at her home in Ludlow Vt. On Jan. 31, 1940, Fuller received the country's first Social Security check for $22.54. By the time she died in 1975 at age 100, she had received nearly $23,000 in benefits. (AP Photo, File)

Ida May Fuller was recipient of 1st Social Security check 75 years ago

By Wilson Ring - Associated Press

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 30, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House Oversight report: Social Security judges could be wasting billions in disability appeals

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Social Security’s outdated records systems invite disability fraud: IG report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md., is seen here on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Social Security may have overpaid $19M to fraudsters

By Chloe Johnson - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this May 31, 2013, file photo, acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin, center, accompanied by Acting Labor Secretary Seth D. Harris, left, and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, speaks during a news conference about Social Security and Medicare in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

House GOP: Time to crack down on Social Security judges who ‘rubber stamp’ disability benefits

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Bruce Huffman, whose attempts to learn how to use a webcam went viral on YouTube. (Associated Press)

$1.4M in stolen Social Security benefits uncovered by ‘Operation Tombstone’; Nine indicted in Fla.

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Scott man sentenced for making false statements

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