February’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $967, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in 14 days. The next SSI payments are scheduled to be distributed on Jan. 31. SSI payments are given to people living with debilitating disabilities that affect their income, according to the Social Security Administration.

The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in Social Security payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the iceberg.”

The Treasury Department announced this week that it had recouped more than $31 million in fraud and improper payments to dead people during just five months of having access to the Social Security Administration's federal death database.

The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the iceberg.” The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration ’s “Full Death Master File” for three years as part of the omnibus appropriations bill in 2021.

Rumors of Social Security payments being issued to dead people have circulate for years, and it turns out that there was in fact an issue.