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Treasury Halts $99M in Fraudulent Payments | Charleston News
Treasury’s new fraud-fighting blitz has already stopped $99 million in suspicious payments—just the start of a major push to catch waste before cash leaves government hands. Agencies like HHS, Medicare, and Medicaid are now withholding over $1 billion in payments to California and Minnesota for review, marking a strategic shift from post-payment recovery to proactive prevention. The “Do Not Pay” system is expanding, now backed by permanent access to Social Security data to spot dead recipients and phantom accounts. Experts say this is only the beginning—with welfare programs as a key target…
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