Elizabeth Harrington

Elizabeth Harrington is a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. Elizabeth graduated from Temple University in 2010. Prior to joining the Free Beacon, she worked as a staff writer for CNSNews.com. Her email address is elizabeth@freebeacon.com. Her Twitter handle is @LizWFB.Email Elizabeth
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The Social Security Administration has spent $3 billion on programs designed to incentivize disability recipients to go back to work over the past 16 years. So far, less than 3 percent of beneficiaries have signed up, with “no consistent evidence” the program has helped participants find a job.

Prisoners incarcerated in California took in $3.5 million in Social Security payments from taxpayers.

The inspector general for the agency reported 123 inmates received the disability and retirement payments despite the Social Security Act prohibiting payments to individuals “confined to a jail, prison, or certain other public institutions for committing a crime.”

MARMET, W.Va.—Sen. Joe Manchin said “it could have been anybody” who requested a personal $3 million “Governor’s Helicopter” for him with opioid settlement funding while he was governor of West Virginia.