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POGO -  The saga of trouble at the Social Security Administration’s chief watchdog continues: Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office are back in the news after the release of a preliminary investigation that raised concerns about the office’s past failures to properly notify (or in some cases, notify at all) people who had received disability overpayments before levying exorbitant penalties against them, as part of the office’s anti-fraud program. Some people were hit with fines well over $100,000 with zero prior notice. The investigation, published by the Washington Post, revealed that the public “may be subject to financial harm” by the inspector general office’s actions since the program’s inception in 1995. The program was shuttered in January 2023.