According this article
http://kuow.org/post/irs-chasing-children-dead-parents-debts
the IRS is confiscating the tax refunds
of individuals whose PARENTS were overpaid by a government agency and in
particular the Social Security Administration.
We are not talking about a final SS payment following the
death of a parent (see the article), but potentially overpayments to the deceased
parents going back man y years.
I am not comfortable with this. While the overpayments may have resulted in
an unjust enrichment to the parent(s), and potentially their estate, at an
expense to the taxpayers this gets much to close to “the sins of the father”.
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