The Los Angeles Times reports, “Up to 200,000 people who were cut off on unfounded suspicions that they were felons evading law enforcement or prosecution will receive back payments. Legal advocates for the poor, elderly and disabled secured a $500-million class-action settlement Tuesday for as many as 200,000 people whose Social Security benefits were suspended on unfounded suspicions that they were fleeing prosecution.” Most of the $500 million the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay in back benefits “will go to 80,000 recipients whose payments have been suspended or denied since Jan. 1, 2007.”
From the American Association for Justice news release.
