NPR's Paul Miller reports on what's being described as one of the government's largest computer errors. The Social Security Administration has shortchanged some 700,000 Americans out of more than $850 million in retirement benefits since 1972. The government already is making back payments worth about $1,500 per person due to its error in calculating post-retirement income, but no interest is being paid on the debt...and tens of thousands of those owed money already have died.
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