Late, unpopular opinion and perspective.
1. This is meh to me, racist, and prolly some other hating BP reporting her. Racist bc of the way they are going to treat her. Racist because the governor of my state had to pay the Feds over $1.5 BILLION in fines because his...HIS company defrauded Medicare. You don't pay back what you didn't steal or pay fines for something you didn't do. Its the reason why I don't bristle when someone whines about poor people getting a few extra hundred or thousand here or there in Food Stamp money cause they didn't report that daddy living in the house, or whatever. White people can defraud an already broke system, scam the WHOLE GOVERNMENT and become the Governor of a State. So yeah.
2. Disability benefits over time ain't enough to cover what she spent. Disability payments can be short or long term. The waters can become muddied as far as WHEN the disability period ends and/or begins again. And many people like her (she noted that she was a cancer and stroke survivor) may have several short term and possibly overlapping periods or even periods where there were gaps in disability payments, then its picked up again. Its certainly possible that she had that money saved. A recent rule several years ago now allows people receiving SS benefits to have several thousand dollars in their savings accounts I think up to 30K..... There was story about that a few years ago. It allowed a disabled man to receive money from a gofundme to buy handicap adaptors to be able to drive a car so he could get around efficiently.
3. Social Security is horrible. When my own child was given SS benefits due to being a micro preemie, we had a period of time where I was out of work and we got the benefits for her care for a few months. As soon as I returned to work, I let them know. They kept sending money anyway (which was a pain) and we had to get several cashier's checks drawn to repay the overpayments until they got around to stopping. They lost faxes we sent, important copies of paperwork. I had to repeat myself a million times. I started taking names and dropping them later. I sent and re-sent copies of fax receipts showing where we sent check stubs, letters, bank statements, AND the statements with our savings accounts.. Then months later they said that because I had money in my savings account at the time....we shouldn't have gotten it in the first place. I told them well, they had my letter from work about me having no income, and they had copies of bank statements going back months during and before we received benefits. We presented the evidence and they backed off. Only to request the money again and try to sue or strong arm us 18 months later after telling us we were in the clear. I started the same long, drawn out process again with copies of copies and copies of faxes and date stamps and everything. I finally had to literally sick my hated white republican Senator on them to back off. I went "full distressed white lady on them" as I was pregnant by then. Last thing I did was request a court date as per THEIR grievance process. I haven't heard back. They are one of the most unprofessional government agencies in the US.