The United States Social Security Administration paid out some $20.2 million in retirement benefits to suspected Nazi war criminals and other Nazi collaborators, the Forward (Jewish) website reports today (May 31, 2015).
A report prepared by the Social Security Administration's inspector general -- scheduled to be released to the public next week -- showed that some $5.7 million was paid to individuals who were found to have played a role in the Nazi persecution and had been deported; and more than $14 million was paid to people who weren't deported but were found to have assisted the Nazis during the Holocaust.
A total of 133 Nazi war criminals and other Nazis received the benefits, according to the report.
The payments occurred between February 1962 and January 2015. Last January, a new law called the No Social Security for Nazis Act came into effect. At that time, the four remaining beneficiaries who were still living lost their retirement benefits. The report does not list the names of those who received the benefits.
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