Dead, Jailed People Get $22 Mil in Stimulus Checks

Last Updated: Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:37am

A highly-touted presidential order to stop federal agencies from sending taxpayer dollars to dead and incarcerated people hasn’t kicked in because the government sent them more than $22 million last year as part of Obama’s disastrous stimulus program.

To be fair, the executive order was officially issued earlier this year in response to rampant waste, fraud and abuse in the government’s system of issuing Social Security benefit payments. President Obama’s order commands federal agencies to create a “Do Not Pay Listâ€