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c186282 wrote:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15001701/trump-number-illegal-migrants-dead-americans-social-security.html
President Donald Trump claims that hundreds of thousands of
non-citizens and millions of dead Americans have been removed
from the Social Security system.
The 79-year-old president celebrated the numbers while signing
a proclamation commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Social
Security Administration (SSA) in the Oval Office on Thursday.
'We've already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the
Social Security system,' the Republican said. 'These are people,
many of them have already left the country, and yet we were
sending them checks all the time.'
The SSA was quick to back up Trump.
Well, that's 275,000 more natives that will
have SS money when they need it.
Joe and friends just went totally NUTS with
the illegals - everything for THEM and FUCK
Americans/American workers.
The Musketeers were involved. And their
track record ain't good.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/why-doge-is-struggling-to-find-fraud-in-social-security/ar-AA1Bx7f9
But some of the biggest examples of allegedly
wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so
far have been overblown or inaccurate. Musk’s
assertion that tens of millions of dead people
over 100 years old are receiving Social Security
benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped
down by the agency’s acting head, who had been
promoted because of his willingness to cooperate
with DOGE. “These individuals are not necessarily
receiving benefits,” acting Social Security
commissioner Lee Dudek said.
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2025/02/20/social-security-head-refutes-claim-that-millions-over-100-are-collecting-benefits/
Trump said at a briefing in Florida that “we have
millions and millions of people over 100 years old”
receiving Social Security benefits...
https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf
"The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that, as of
June 2021, approximately 86,000 individuals
residing in the United States were age 100 or
older."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-many-dead-people-really-collect-social-security-8eebe7e3
The Social Security Administration pushed
back on claims by President Donald Trump and
Elon Musk that it was paying benefits to tens
of millions of dead people and said Sunday
that less than one-third of 1% of death claims
are false.
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-social-security
SSA has rigorous protocols to stop payments
to beneficiaries who have died. State vital
statistics agencies report deaths to SSA via
the Electronic Death Registration system,
typically within days. SSA also collects
death data from funeral home directors,
family members, and financial institutions.
Across all sources, the agency receives
nearly 3 million death reports each year,
preventing over $50 million in improper
payments each month. To catch any deaths
that may have escaped reporting, SSA
regularly checks to be sure its oldest
beneficiaries are using their Medicare
benefits — if not, they verify that the
beneficiary is still alive. And in the
extremely rare cases where benefits are
paid to people over 100 years old, SSA
has a policy to stop payments by
age 115.
Only 0.1 percent of Social Security benefits
are paid to people over 100 years old. DOGE
head Elon Musk has been circulating a table
he claims shows Social Security
beneficiaries at very old ages, but he is
grossly mischaracterizing its contents.
These numbers appear to be drawn from SSA’s
Numident database, a record of every Social
Security number application since the
program started. The Numident typically
does not contain death dates for people
born before 1920 — before Social Security
was established and long before electronic
records were kept.
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