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Social security spent weeks by cleaning bad data from their records and promoting millions of cases where the holders of social security were over 120.
The Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Ongoing cleaning of records On social media and say that the process lasts for weeks.
“Over the past 3 weeks, social security has been doing great cleaning of their records. Approximately 7 million numerals, all listed at the age of 120+, have now been marked as deceased. Another ~ 5 million,” Doga said on social media.
The effort comes afterwards billionaire Elon Musk, Doge's face emphasized a huge number of social security numbers assigned to Americans with unlikely or impossible age.
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Elon Musk emphasized millions of social security assigned to Americans with unlikely age. (Reuters / Kent Nishimura / Reuters)
“The logical flow diagram for the Social Security system looks crazy. No one actually knows how it works. Payments that move between social security and the treasury have significant discrepancies that are not aligned. It is wild,” Musk said in February.
“There are many more” eligible “social security numbers in the US than citizens. It can be the biggest fraud in history, ”he added.
MUSK AND DOGE They did not say that social security payments went out to every “eligible” number, but Musk claimed that inaccurate data could have caused more indirect government waste.
President Donald Trump administration led an aggressive effort to clean the government. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / Getty Images)
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The reigning social security commissioner Lee Dudek replied last month to check from Muska by saying: “Reported data are people in our records with social security number who do not have the date of death associated with their record. These individuals do not necessarily receive benefits.”
The woman enters the social security office. (Mark Felix for Washington Post / Getty Pictures)
Critics of Muska's efforts pointed to cases where social security administration incorrectly classified someone as the deceased and cut off their payments while man was still alive.
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The SSA dealt with such cases last week in its own statement and explained that while the agency receives millions of death reports every year, “less than a third of 1 percent are incorrectly reported to death to be corrected”.
Fox Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.
