Dan Sutter: Is this the plan for saving Social Security?

Everybody makes mistakes, but government accountants seem particularly error prone.  With 70 million Americans receiving Social Security payments annually, mistakes are inevitable. But the Social Security Administration aggressively pursues repayment years or even decades later as detailed in Social Security Horror Stories by Lawrence Kotlikoff and Terry Savage. The repayment efforts can cause immense hardship. Cases cited by the book include: a widow asked to repay $300,000; a five-year-old sued months after his mother died; and denying a veteran’s indigency claim based on too many cable tele