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IRS payments to deceased serves as wake-up call for agencies to share data

Published: July 1, 2020, 1:06 p.m.

b'The IRS and Treasury Department rushed to get pandemic payments out to the public in the weeks after Congress passed the CARES Act. But they also sent more than a million payments to people who died. IRS officials told the Government Accountability Office the agency didn\\u2019t have the legal authority to deny payments to people who filed recent tax returns but in doing so paid out more than a billion dollars to the deceased. That\\u2019s led Congress looking at ways to get agencies sharing death data. Federal News Network\\u2019s Jory Heckman has more. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'