Good morning.
It's Thursday, March 27th.
I'm Shemita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On Today's show, Trump targets law firms that have challenged him.
How calls to defund PBS fit into this administration's escalating attacks on the press
and are robot umpires ready for the big leagues?
But first, a new social security policy goes into effect today.
It's rare, but sometimes social security overpays someone.
It can happen if there's been a miscalculation or if that person didn't update their income.
In the past, the agency would withhold 10% of that person's future benefits until they paid back the overpayment.
But starting today, the agency will take 100% of future benefits until the overpayment has been corrected.
A 2024 internal audit found overpayments accounted for less than 1% of all benefits paid
between the 2015 and 2022 fiscal years, about 72 billion dollars.
Two-thirds of that money was eventually recovered.
For context, social security distributes close to 1.6 trillion dollars in benefits every year.
It's also important to note social security is paid for by Americans through a dedicated payroll tax.
This is just one of many changes.
President Trump and Elon Musk have made to social security in the past few weeks.
And in spite of what internal audits like the one I just mentioned have shown,