Posted on 03/10/2015 4:46:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are more than 6.5 million Americans over the age of 112, according to the Social Security Administration. If you are wondering about the accuracy of this count, you are not alone.
After a man attempted to open bank accounts using active Social Security Numbers from both 1869 and 1893, the Office of the Inspector General decided to audit the SSA. They found that as of Oct. 2013, only 35 known individuals over the age of 112 are still living worldwide.
The SSA’s Numerical Identification System (often shortened to Numident), contains all the Social Security Numbers tracing back to 1936 when they were first being issued. Apparently the SSA just hasn’t been reading the obituaries...for the last century [emphasis added]:
SSA did not establish controls to annotate death information on the Numident record of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies and were likely deceased. At the time of our review, SSA’s Numident included approximately 6.5 million numberholders who were born before June 16, 1901 but who did not have death information on their record. SSA issued almost all the SSNs to process benefit claims filed by the numberholders or their family members before March 1972 and had previously input dates of death on more 1.8 million of these numberholders’ payment records but did not record the death entries on the Numident.
In addition, we identified thousands of instances of potential identity theft or other fraud involving these SSNs.
Between the years 2006 and 2011, some 70,000 of these outdated SSNs were used to procure $3.1 billion in earnings. One specific SSN turned up 613 times on different wage reports, according to the IOG.
The IOG out recommended procedures for the SSA and requested it send back a "corrective action plan," within the next 60 days.
This story seems almost too insane to be true, but sadly, it is just another ghastly example of Big Government gone amok.
Well, hey! Google is saying peeps gonna live to 500 years old! So this is okay, right? /s :0)
This would be a story if FedGov was inclined to do anything about it.
While you’re auditing, how about cross-indexing to voter registrations?
There are reason why I don’t use Google, this is one of them
I wasn’t using them. Drudge got it up...:0)
These 112 YOs likely have a mother tongue that one might call Hispanic.
First it was just a retirement account number, then it became the individual identification number. This is stupid. If the great minds in this country can’t figure out what to do, they can ask anyone with even rudimentary IT experience.
6.5 million SSNs, but only 8 million of them are voting.
How old is Harrison Bounel these days?
Back in the 70s, an insurance guy told me this story: He had a gypsy woman sign up for insurance. On her 2nd visit he asked for her social security number and she handed over her card, just as he found the number in the stack of stuff he had previously gathered. The numbers didn’t match and the gypsy said, ‘Oh, that is the wrong card!’ and handed him another one with a different name.
He did some research and discovered that gypsies don’t report deaths in the family but bury the remains in a woods and continue to collect social security in the dead person’s name. Indeed, when dying, gypsies ‘gift’ their identities to whom they choose, usually one of their children. Some are collecting on 5 or 6 cards. And when some of them claim to be really old, it is to establish the validity of the card that keeps giving them cash. A dentist could look at their teeth and tell their real age but that isn’t going to be allowed to happen.
European governments have always despised gypsies for being vagabonds, thieves and tax avoiders. The nazis got rid of them before addressing all the other groups they hated (not to advocate nazism).
One specific SSN turned up 613 times on different wage reports, according to the IOG.
Actually now that I think about it this should not be at all surprising. In fact it now seem obvious.
Anyone who has done any family history investigation will know that after a certain year the SS number of persons becomes available on line because the person is assumed dead.
But obviously from this article it does not mean that the SS number has become listed as inactive by the SS administration.
So anyone wishing to assume an identity of a deceased person needed only get on ancestry dot com and do a little research for a deceased relatives’ SS number and then a little trial and error can fix you up with a social security number.
Yeah, read this already. Government went over the edge a long time ago. Wonder if anyone is going to do a study on the ethnicity of these senior citizens?
Yesterday’s gypsies are today’s democrats. Gypsy is the new democrat.
That is 7,382.00 per month average. I don't believe it.
Isn’t the gentleman that President Obama is borrowing his social security number now over 110?
And 6.5 million of those 35 live in the US!
And 6.5 million of those 35 live in the US!
And they all vote democRAT across the board!
Proof Obama WANTS to WASTE as much of America’s money as possible.
(and that staff at SSI is only concerned with caseload, to justify their empires)
Your result may be too high by a factor of 10.
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