I Think My Mother Has Been Committing Social Security Fraud In My Name

Location: Alabama

I’m 30 years old. I was drawing social security at a young age. From about 7 all the way up till I was 22.

I recently got a letter in the mail from the SSA telling me they were about to garnish my wages. We went to our local office after signing a waiver petition. They told us that all garnishments would stop until they make a decision. Well last night after looking at my check stub, they took out 136 dollars, dropping my check down to 271. That isn’t something I can live off of.

Due to my dad not being in the picture, my mother had been using the money from my benefits to pay bills. It was a means of survival for us.

Well when I got older enough, I met someone and had a son. I got a job working 40 hours a week so my benefits SHOULD have stopped.

When I talked to my sons mother about it last night, she told me that when we were in a custody battle I got taken off of my child support after she signed me back up for social security. If she did sign me up for social security knowing that I made too much money, this is obvious fraud that I have absolutely no knowledge of, and I’m paying back money that I have never seen a cent of. I haven’t confronted her about this because I need to know how to go about this the legal way.

What do I do in this situation? If this is true, it isn’t my fault and it’s my money that’s being garnished. Not hers. Like I said that money was used for bills. I never had any say in what was done with it. But if my name was put on a piece of paper signing me up for something I didn’t know about then I need to know how to go about this before I lose everything by not being able to pay my bills.