A Social Security overpayment notice asks you to repay benefits due to earnings limits, life changes, and more. Here's why overpayments happen and what to do.

Social Security overpayments happen more often than many retirees expect. In many cases, the extra money arrives due to income reporting delays, beneficiary errors, or administrative mistakes within ...

Opening a letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) stating thatyou've been overpaid and now must repay the money can feel alarming, no matterhow well you've prepared forretirement. You've ...

Retirees who ignore SSA overpayment letters face automatic withholding of up to 50% of their monthly benefit under a rule reinstated in 2025. Filing Form SSA-561 within 60 days or Form SSA-632 (waiver ...

The Social Security Administration's policy changes on overpayment recovery, now set at a 50% withholding rate, affect ...

ATLANTA (Aging Untold) — Some Social Security recipients and their families have faced demands to repay thousands of dollars in benefits the agency mistakenly overpaid, sometimes years after the ...