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Social security has spent weeks to clean up poor data from their records, excluding millions of cases where social security number holders were over 120 years of age.
Government’s efficiency department (DOGE) announced Running record cleanup On social media, saying that this process has taken weeks.
“For the last 3 weeks, social security has been carrying out a major clarification of their records. About 7 million number holders, all listed 120+, are now marked as the deceased. To go to another ~ 5 million,” Dogen announced on social media.
Comes after effort Billionaire Elon Musk, Dog’s face highlighted a large number of social security numbers assigned to Americans with impossible or impossible age.
Elon Musk highlighted millions of social security numbers assigned to Americans. (Reuters / Kent Nishimura / Reuters)
“The logic flow diagram for the social security system looks crazy. No person really knows how it works. Payment files running between social security and treasury are important discrepancies that are not harmonious. It is wild,” Musk declared in February.
He said, “The United States has far more ‘qualified’ social security numbers than citizens. This can be the biggest fraud in history.”
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Musk It has not been said that social security payments were going out for every “eligible” number holder, but Musk has argued that wrong data could cause more indirect government waste.
The administration of President Donald Trump has led an aggressive government cleaning effort. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Image / Getty Images)
Acting Social Security Commissioner Lee Dudech responded to the investigation from Musk last month, “The reports reported are people in our records with a social security number who do not have the date of death related to their records. These individuals are not getting the necessary benefits.”
A woman runs in a social security office. (Mark Felix for Washington Post / Getty Image)
Musk’s effort critics have pointed to examples where the Social Security Administration wrongly classified someone as a deceased, while a person was still alive, while cutting his payment.
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The SSA addressed such cases in its own statement last week, stating that the agency receives reports of millions of deaths every year, “less than 1 percent of one -third of wrong deaths are reported that need to be corrected.”
Fox Business’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
