The White House Secretary of the White House of Donald Trump Carolyn Levitic has strengthened the fantastic claims of billionaire Elon Musk for widespread fraud in the Social Security Administration (SSA) – and was called for it.
“President Trump directed Elon Musk and the Dodge team to identify fraud in the Social Security Administration. They have not yet entered the books, but they suspect there are tens of millions of dead people who receive fraudulent social security payments, “Levit said during the time of appearance on Fox News Monday.
Levitt said Dog is striving to “identify payments that will be deceased who no longer live and should no longer receive that money.”
She claims she spent the day fighting “fake news reporters” who were “afraid” for Musk. Earlier the same day, Michel King, an acting SSA commissioner, resigned Due to a collision with the selected bureaucrat, which recently gained access to the agency’s databases that contain threesome from sensitive data belonging to US citizens.
For someone who has simply “suspicions,” as Levitt said, Musk is constantly increasing his public allegations of fraud in the Social Security Administration. Last week he firm The review of this Dog for the SSA has revealed people marked as 150 years who have received social security benefits.
“Now, do you know someone who is 150? I don’t know. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records … So this is a case where I think they are probably dead, “Musk said during an appearance in the oval office.
He repeat The claim in X Sunday, attaching a diagram of how many people in different age brackets have received social security benefits, which suggests that more than 16 million people, whose age have been marked between 110 and 370 years, receive social security benefits.
“According to the social security database, these are the number of people in every era with the bucket with the death field set on FALSE! Maybe the Twilight is real and there are many vampires who collect social security, “Musk wroteS
Total graphics are inexplicable that 400 million people receive social security benefits while The SSA website He stated that in 2024 there were only 68 455 973 social security recipients.
But this is not the only part of the allegations of Musk fraud that do not completely go through the smell.
Dog has not found fraud but a mistake in submission that has already been disclosed in A report of 2023 by the service of the General Inspector. The Office found that the social security databases, in particular, the main death file (DMF) and Numicent, a file containing identifiable information for each person issued with a social security number have not been updated when someone has died.
Numicent contained the names of more than 18 million people born before 1920 who had no information on death. “The information on death is missing from Numident and DMF makes it difficult for both SSA and state efforts to prevent and detect fraud and abuse,” the authors of the report said. This is not the first time Musk claims that Dodge has found something that is actually publicly available.
Most importantly, this so-called discovery does not necessarily show fraud.
The 2023 report found that 98 percent of the social security number at the age of 100 or more did not receive benefits. In the end, the report determined that the system did not need to be updated as it was too expensive. Musk has to like things like that, right?
SSA has other means to combat this problem. Since 2015 SSA has Policy automatically terminate the right of beneficiaries who are “115 years of age or older”, “in any current continuous voltage for seven years or more” or “entitled for a protocol when there are no other beneficiaries in the status of non-storage status, younger than the age of 115. “
Experts have proposed another possible explanation for the widespread agents of beneficiaries is the strangeness of Cobol, a 60-year programming language that can use May 20, 1875, as a reference point in its encoding. The COBOL system may indicate that anyone with a missing date of birth in the SSA database is 150 years old, which can explain Musk’s claim to the peoples of the economies who receive social security benefits, according to CableS
All these holes make Levit’s desperate attempts to support Musk’s outrageous allegations even more alleges.
“It’s absurd, corrosive nonsense,” ” wrote Journalist James Surowesky in a publication on Tuesday. “There are no tens of millions of dead people who receive social security checks, and the only reason that Levit is here, making these hysterical statements is that Elon Musk misunderstood a table of numbers.”
Even a right commentator was left interrogation Musk mathematics.
“It sounds that there may be incorrectly interpreted Social Security Details … It seems that we don’t pay these benefits … More recently, these people (at 150 and whatever) are only roles, although there are no checks,”, Regan Regan wrote On the X Tuesday.
“If so, this is not the huge find that people hoped for,” she said. “While social security records need to be cleaned, it seems that this finding will have a small effect of savings as the inspections do not come out. The team seems to have come out over its skiing. Of course – purify the records, but it is crucial to present mathematics properly. “
In another PostShe called on Musk and Dodge to “check triple mathematics.”