Claim: Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can't validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.
Fact-check: Gingrich says large percent of Social Security payments are government waste
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Willoughby Mariano
Date published: 2011-06-24T00:00:00