Washington Post Reports Social Security Overpaid Disability Benefits by One Percent Over Last Nine Years

That is sort of what the Post reported. It told readers that:

"One of the largest federal programs that provides cash benefits to disabled workers overpaid $11 billion during the past nine years to people who returned to work and made too much money, a new study says."

The Post article never bothered to tell readers that the program paid out roughly $1.1 trillion in benefits over this period, making the overpayment equal to 1.0 percent of benefits. It also would have been worth not...