Dead people received $871.9 million in mistaken payments. Medicaid, social security payments, federal retirement annuity payouts (pensions), and even farm subsidies were sent to dead recipients!

Root cause: failure to verify death

Four-year total: $2.8 billion

Improper Payments Investigations Oversight Report: https://bit.ly/ImproperPayments1120 Forbes: https://bit.ly/ImproperPaymentsOTB