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20.789 million Americans are collecting social security benefits over the age of 100 with some recipients over 140 years old

Posted by freedomforall 4 days, 22 hours ago to Government
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"One X user pointed out that 2023 data showed the US population at around 334.9 million. However, Musk's data (likely from DOGE's 'Big Balls' analyst) shows 394 million names in the Social Security Administration database.

Musk responded: "Yes, there are FAR more "eligible" social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history.""
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/might-be-biggest-fraud-history


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    Posted by Lucky 4 days, 10 hours ago
    " I got
    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350...
    goes to same place "

    1,039 persons in the age range of 220 to 229.
    Let me do the sum on my fingers ...
    .. birth years between 1796 to 1805,
    and the 360yo born 1665, could be a child of Mayflower migrants from 1620.

    To be serious for a moment, pardon, I have some passing acquaintance with large data-bases, you may think that keeping them up to date, cleaning, checking, and doing maintenance can be done by diversity hires, wrong.
    Low IQ maybe for some work, but care and integrity is on another scale.
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      Posted by 4 days, 2 hours ago
      👍 Storing some records in an abandoned mine makes it easier to make excuses for the unproductive to do nothing while wasting billions.
      Meanwhile government grows, and grows, and tyranny becomes commonplace.
      D.C. NIFO
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    • Posted by tutor-turtle 3 days, 20 hours ago
      The Left is going positively apoplectic over the reality that the waste, fraud and abuse is finally getting addressed.
      It is endlessly entertaining to listen to their diatribes about how undemocratic and what a dictator our President is for doing the job We The People hired him to do!

      Every man who has taken the job of President has said they were going to do what only Donald J. Trump is actually doing.

      "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 3 days, 20 hours ago
      The report of those incredible anomalies suggests some sort of error. Perhaps the database is being read incorrectly. Perhaps Y2K is in there messing things up, as in proposed corrections that were never completed or that were done incorrectly. Heck, I have enough trouble just managing my own TODO list that's kept in two places.

      Are the keepers of that particular database evil, careless, incompetent, or simply overwhelmed? Based on what I discover that I've left on my own computers, I'd favor overwhelmed. They're likely set to a task that's beyond anything the Constitution's writers ever imagined.

      That leads to another evil possibility--"Let's pour so much data into it that nobody can figure out what's going on. We can then interpret it as suits our needs."
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 4 days, 22 hours ago
    I wonder how many of these 20.789 million "Americans" are actually illegal immigrants receiving Social Insecurity. Is it any wonder Social Insecurity is always insolvent?
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  • Posted by Turfprint 3 days, 23 hours ago
    The amazing part of this In my opinion is that we actually had the story brought to light, and
    someone competent is involved.
    Not only that only that, it seems Musk has his teeth into it.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 20 hours ago
    From the article: "Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," Musk emphasized. Now click on over to OUC's latest MAGAzean, meme #3, right side! LOL!
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 3 days, 22 hours ago
    The libs will loudly claim that this is a harmless computer glitch and that payments never went out to these folks.

    Either that or it's Russian election interference..
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  • Posted by WilliamRThomas 3 days, 23 hours ago
    Some social security numbers for dead people would perhaps stay valid because of survivor benefits. Spouses, for example, get some survivor benefits, I believe. Perhaps the dead spouse's number stays in use in the accounts during this period.

    Let's not jump to conclusions and do let's wait for a judicious, objective account.
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    • Posted by Turfprint 3 days, 22 hours ago
      I was thinking the same. Maybe? But the 2.5% increase offset by Medicare increase has been ongoing. The only real as increase was under Trump, and that was catching up for absolutely nothing from Obomba🙁
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      • Posted by mccannon01 3 days, 2 hours ago
        Same thinking here. The SS database may be like the Hotel California, you can check out but you can never leave. Nobody spends the time to purge the files of past recipients that checks are no longer being issued to. That doesn't mean to not look for fraud, which is still quite likely.
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  • Posted by minesayn 3 days, 18 hours ago
    My brother-in-law finally signed up for Social Security and Medicare when he was dying from Stage 4 Colon Cancer. He received one check the same week he died. That money had to be returned even though payments are always a month behind.

    As for insolvency of the programs, that can be blamed on Congress from way back when (it's been going on for so many years that I can't tell you the exact date).. Although there is supposed to be a trust fund, that money is used to pay current debts of the government.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 3 days, 20 hours ago
    Updated comments include... It's not clear these were all check recipients. Just that they were "Active". But my understanding is that even President Trump gets his Soc. Sec. Check, once he hit the magic age.

    So, I struggle to accept that they are NOT getting checks.

    I am just happy to have COMPETENT people looking into this, and everything else!
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