After Hours: Why is the Social Security Administration Cheating Elderly Widows?

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A whistleblower working at the Social Security Administration talks about the agency cheating instead of helping elderly widows. Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends! Support independent journalism by visiting the new Sharyl Attkisson store. Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop! Visit JustTheNews.com, SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:30.0	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.
0:35.6	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:39.0	Today a whistleblower's incredible story about how the Social Security Administration
0:44.4	is cheating elderly widows out of money they're entitled to.
0:57.4	Sunday May 22nd on Full Measure, an interesting and impactful story from a whistleblower at
1:04.0	the Social Security Administration.
1:06.5	He says he's uncovered systemic cheating of elderly widows.
1:11.4	Even worse he says when he documented the issue and brought it to the attention of his Social
1:15.8	Security Administration superiors, he says they warded him off and told him to just
1:21.6	do his job.
1:23.2	In today's podcast, we'll hear the story from John McAdams who is still a Social Security
1:28.8	claims authorizer at the Social Security Administration.
1:32.2	If you had to synopsize this whole story in a couple of sentences, what would you say
1:40.6	this is a story about for people who haven't heard?
1:43.4	About widows, it could be men but it's typically widows, widow women who applied for survivor
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