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Gary Palmer: “So over the last 2 or 3 years, and the last report I saw was for 2014, and it was what, $3 billion, something in that…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
So over the last 2 or 3 years, and the last report I saw was for 2014, and it was what, $3 billion, something in that range, that went out in death benefits improperly paid? Did that number decrease last year?
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer questions the decrease in improper death benefit payments over recent years.

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