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Tom Carper: “I was stunned when I saw the number, the improper payments number, for 2014, because we had seen during a number of…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2015
I was stunned when I saw the number, the improper payments number, for 2014, because we had seen during a number of years that the number was going down beginning in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Tom Carper expressed surprise at the rise in improper payments in 2014 after years of decline.

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