Repeal Public Law 110-234  May 22, 2008 Sec. 14219. Elimination of statute of limitations applicable to collection of debt by administrative offset.

My friend received notice that the survivor benefits she received as a teen due to her mother's death were now owed back to the federal government because she shouldn't have gotten them as she made too much money. She worked part-time at a restaurant at 16 back in 1975. They say she received checks for years she didn't receive anything and they're taking it out of her tax refund this year. They don't even have to prove she received it or signed the checks they sent! She didn't get benefits for the years they are claiming she was overpaid. It was over 35 years ago! And here is the story of another woman this happened to as well: http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/us-treasury-irs-statute-limitations-tax-grab-208436421.html. ;

Of course no adult will have records of what they received in childhood. They have no way of fighting it even if they fill out the appeal paperwork. 
This erasure of the statute of limitations for federal debt may not have been intended to target survivor benefits received by children over 35 years ago. But the law allows the Social Security Administration to legally take money from you 35 years later. This is wrong and needs to be changed. It could happen to anybody.