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Don't Be Fooled About Your Recovery Payment
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Social Security Administration's Public Service Announcement for Radio makes the public aware that the one time American Recovery and Reinvestment payment is initiated by the government and there is no application or fee for receiving the payment. If anyone asks for an application fee, it is a scam.

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