By Stephen Dinan | Published at The Washington Times
The federal government blows nearly half a million dollars every minute of every day on erroneous payments, according to a new report that hopes to shock Washington to clean up its act.
To Uncle Sam, they’re known as improper payments. Some are just mistakes where the government pays out too much or, in some cases, too little, to a Social Security or welfare recipient. But much is old-fashioned fraud.
And they’re a growing part of the government’s sea of red ink, according to OpenTheBooks, a watchdog.