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Tax refunds confiscated for decades-old debts without notification

An obscure change to the 2008 farm bill has allowed the government, for the first time, to seize debt more than 10 years old. Wyatt Andrews spoke to one woman whose tax refund was withheld due an overpayment of benefits after her father died in 1960.
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