Social Security overpayments are a significant issue, with billions in uncollected funds. The SSA's new 50% withholding policy aims to address this, impacting beneficiaries from July 2025. Learn how ...

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The Social Security Administration, which overpays billions in benefits annually, is beginning to withhold some benefits sent ...

Starting in August, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will claw back overpayments, potentially reducing recipients’ ...

Social Security's overpayment withholding rate will increase to 50% in late July The Social Security Administration under former President Joe Biden cut the overpayment recovery rate from 100% to 10%.

People who have received more Social Security benefits than needed can expect their monthly payments to be cut in half by around July 24 until the overpayment is repaid.

First, you can manually repay Social Security check overpayments. Details on how to manually replay your overpayments can be found here. A second option is to ask for an overpayment recovery waiver.

Social Security payments may be smaller in July as the SSA increases efforts to recover overpayments from recipients.

Because of the calendar, Social Security's July payments will arrive a few days sooner than in some months. But some may see smaller checks.