The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it is reinstating a plan to recover 100% of overpayments to beneficiaries, a policy the agency abandoned last year after an outcry over cases in which the practice led some Americans to receive shock bills amounting to thousands of dollars.

The Social Security Administration said late Friday it is going to increase the amount it would claw back from Social Security recipients who received overpayments of their benefits, bringing the withholding back to 100% from 10%.

The Social Security Administration is going back to fully recovering overpayments, a move advocates say could cause "unnecessary harm" to some of the most vulnerable Americans.

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The Social Security Administration said it is reinstating a plan to recover 100% of overpayments to beneficiaries.

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SSA Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek said it is the agency's "duty to revise the overpayment repayment policy back to full withholding."

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is making strides in implementing the Social Security Fairness Act, resulting in over $7.5 billion in retroactive payments to more than a million Americans.