Newspaper apologizes for obituary of the SS – Polish Radio

                             US Social Security Administration (Social Security Administration – SSA) paid 20.2 million dollars more than 130 people suspected of involvement in Nazi crimes during the Second World War – writes the Associated Press on Sunday.
                         

The agency refers to a report of the Inspector General of the SSA, having to appear in the coming days and notes that the impulse for the development of this document was its own investigation into the matter. AP adds that last year the SSA refused it access to data on the payment of social security benefits suspected of links with Nazism.

According to the AP that a suspect benefits paid are much larger than originally thought. The case relates to the period from February 1962 to January 2015, when came into effect a new law No Social Security for Nazis Act (No social benefits for the Nazis), which resulted in the payment of benefits suspended four people. The report of the Inspector General of the SSA does not mention the names of suspects.

The Associated Press writes that the duration and size of benefits paid to individuals suspected of involvement in Nazi crimes shows that the American public was unaware of the influx of former Nazis to the USA. Their number is estimated to be up to 10,000. Many lied, concealing his Nazi past to get to the United States and gain citizenship. The US authorities have reacted late for that. Only in 1979 in the department of justice, a special cell whose task was to detect former Nazis.

The AP also writes that established that the Ministry of Justice used the loophole to persuade suspected of having ties to Nazism to leave the US nieodbieranie return for their benefits. If you agreed to leave voluntarily or simply fled from the US, they could keep the benefits. Ministry of Justice but denied social benefits used to get rid of former Nazis.

The report of the Inspector General of the SSA states that 38 former Nazis were paid 5.6 million dollars before they were deported. Ninety-five suspected of having links with the Nazis, who had not been deported, but for which persisted or confirmed suspicions, received benefits totaling 14.5 million dollars.

PAP / aj