Basically, two people filed a bunch of W-2 forms claiming to be billionaires, and those forms were not caught and ended up skewing the 2009 numbers so that it appeared that top earners made five times what they made in 2008. When those fraudulent forms are thrown out, the wages of top earners actually declined in 2009. The SSA can't figure out how the bad forms slipped through their controls. Apparently this is the first time in history mistaken forms affected SSA earnings stats.
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