Large numbers of Americans have had all or part of their tax refund seized by the IRS in an attempt to collect on debts – even from a person’s parents and grandparents — that were up to 50 years old. This nightmare has already happened to one citizen by the name of Mary Grice; her tax refund was seized because Social Security overpaid a disability payment to her family in 1977. “It was a shock,” Grice told The Washington Post. “What incenses me is the way they went about this. They gave me no notice, they can’t prove that I received any overpayment, and they use intimidation tactics, threatening to report this to the credit bureaus.” The Treasury Department seized Grice’s tax refund to collect on a $2,996 overpayment to her family in 1977, although no one, not even the government, knows which family member received it. Her mother received Social Security survivor benefits for nearly 20 years because her father died in 1960, when Grice was 4.
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