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Deanda worked for a charitable agency. She served as representative payee for a number of Social Security recipients who couldn't handle their own money. Deanda is alleged to have stolen $516,000 from bank accounts set up for the claimants.      In case you were wondering, the government shutdown that the President is threatening in order to get his wall is only a partial shutdown. Most of the government, including the Social Security Administration, is not affected because the appropriations bills covering those agencies have already been pas*ed by Congress and signed by the President. This is one of the many facts that contribute to the President's weak position. There's also the facts that most voters don't want the wall, Republican members of Congress are, at best, lukewarm on the wall, and Democrats will control the House of Representatives in less than two weeks. Also, the President is generally quite unpopular and even Republican members of Congress are dismayed by many of the President's recent actions, such as the withdrawal from Syria. I suppose it won't dawn on it until he hears it from Fox and Friends or Vladimir Putin but Trump has little leverage on anything that involves Congress apart from judicial appointments.. NICE CHRISTMAS STORY -- A SIMPLE OVERPAYMENT THAT WASN'T THE CLAIMANT'S FAULT LEADS TO HOMELESSNESS.      How does one become homeless? I'm sure there are a million ways. One Los Angeles resident writes movingly Security overpayment. It should have been easy to resolve the overpayment. He probably would have qualified for waiver of the overpayment since he's clearly poor and the overpayment wasn't his fault but no one told him the overpayment could be waived. He thought he had a repayment schedule worked out but apparently a Social Security employee didn't do what they were supposed to be so things reverted to the default mode of seizing 100% of each month's check until the overpayment is collected.      Why is it that seizure of 100% of each month's check is the default mode for overpayments? Is that really necessary? If the