STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - U.S. Treasury Stops $99M in Payments to the Dead with Trump-Backed Safeguards
WASHINGTON – The Department of Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced Tuesday it has successfully implemented a new government payment verification process that prevents federal payments from being issued to deceased individuals. The initiative is now fully underway and fulfills a key requirement of President Trump’s Executive Order 14249 and the Ending […] The post U.S. Treasury Stops $99M in Payments to the Dead with Trump-Backed Safeguards appeared first on StoneZone .
WASHINGTON – The Department of Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced Tuesday it has successfully implemented a new government payment verification process that prevents federal payments from being issued to deceased individuals. The initiative is now fully underway and fulfills a key requirement of President Trump’s Executive Order 14249 and the Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, signed into law in February 2026. To date, the enhanced screening has reviewed more than 885 million payments which total to approximately $2.77 trillion. The system identified more than 4,900 payments associated with deceased payees, which equal nearly $99 million. Those payments were returned to the originating federal…Open
