Perspective | USPS agrees to $49 million settlement after having long ‘dawdled’ in payments to beneficiaries

The Washington Post: It’s bad enough for family members when a loved one dies.

Getting cheated by Uncle Sam afterward makes it worse.

He did that in cases involving more than 2,000 beneficiaries who didn’t get the full benefit of U.S. Postal Service life insurance policies. After waging a losing fight, the Postal Service surrendered, agreeing to a settlement of up to $49 million. The agency is now sending checks to the beneficiaries it can find, but some of them may never know they are owed money.

They would have been easier to find if postal officials had not taken decades to resolve the situation.

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