According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!

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[hardspunned]

Social Security © Age Range Count 0-9 38,825,456 10-19 44,326,480 20-29 47,995,478 30-39 52,106,915 40-49 47,626,581 50-59 45,740,805 60-69 46,381,281 70-79 33,404,412 80-89 15,165,127 90-99 6,054,154 100-109 4,734,407 110-119 3,627,007 120-129 3,472,849 130-139 3,936,311 140-149 3,542,044 150-159 1,345,083 160-169 121,807 170-179 6,087 180-189 695 190-199 448 200-209 879 210-219 866 220-229 1,039 240-249 1 360-369 1

[HombreSecreto]

100 and over according to the article - 16,055,117

In 2021, there were 89,739 centenarians (people aged 100 and older) in the United States, according to the UN Population Division.

16,055,117 - 89,739 = 15,965,378

Assume an average monthly payment of $800.

Yowsah! Almost 13 billion per month!

15,965,378 * 800 = $12,772,302,400 per month.

[Savage Beast]

The Democrats are in the pathetic position of trying to defend kleptocracy, political corruption, and the exploitation of hard working Americans.

Remember when they were trying to defend slavery? infanticide? election fraud? political assassination? the Trail of Tears? illegal immigration? child castration?

[Red Badger]

[Sirius Lee]

I wonder if the 360+ year old is a smoker?

Only in sunlight.

[Codeflier]

I think bucket is correct. In terms of databases, a bucket is a group of data based on various attributes.

[Red Badger]

And here I thought the film and TV series “Outlander” was fiction!.................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

At least four widows of veterans of the American Civil War (fought 1861–1865) are known to have survived into the 21st century. All were born in the 20th century and married their husbands while the women were still young and the men were in advanced age. This practice was not uncommon at the time due to the possibility of receiving pensions as dependents of Civil War veterans; the pensions were known for their generosity. Some of these unions were in name only, while others lived together as married couples. (Wikipedia)

[Red Badger]

That word is correct.

It’s programmer tech slang.

Also it indicates that they have not kicked it.............

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A quick google check shows the number of people over 100 years old in the United States to be 83,732. But only about 20 million of them are registered with the Social Security Administration.

What is truly appalling is the SSA publishes mortality tables, that are used for estimating future Social Security outlays. If more than roughly 100,000 people over 100 are receiving benefits, including Medicare, this is outrageous. It may be that only a few of those 20,000,000 are receiving benefits post mortem. It’s worth looking into.

My wife died on a Sunday and her bank account received a benefit check on Wednesday. Her death certificate was completed on that Wednesday. Since Social Security checks are mailed in the month after the benefits are intended for, that money was part of her estate.

Social Security reclaimed the deposit by Thursday. They sent a letter, addressed to her, explaining that someone had to tell them who her relations (husband, children, grandchildren) were and they would decide whom to pay. The bank addressed a letter to her estate explaining that the Social Security Administration had withdrawn the post-mortem payments. The bank’s letter arrived before the SSA’s.

[cgbg]

This is what New York City rent control did.

Folks hustle dead grandma out of town and bury her in a New Jersey swamp so there is no death certificate.

(I admit I am not sure what they do in the dead of winter. Maybe the mob has a service for that. )

They keep the rent controlled apartment and the social security check.

[desertsolitaire]

Is there a way to correlate by name and SS number if a person has been actively voting and where at? (or presumably, a fraudster voting in their name?)

[cgbg]

The immortal Highlander:

“There can be only one.”

Lol.

[Eli Kopter]

Is Methuselah still alive?

[hardspunned]

I can’t recall which president but I saw something freaky along those lines recently. I believe Andrew Jackson’s grandson is still alive or had just died.

[Texas Fossil]

My first wife died in 2018. She was born in 1946. Her grandfather was born before the Civil War.

He was 72, when my first wife was born.

Fact.

After the Civil War, it was fairly common for very old family friends who fought in the Civil War would marry very young girls to allow them to collect their survivors benefits.

[Verginius Rufus]

Many years ago (maybe 25 or 30) I heard a talk by a 97-year-old man whose father had ridden with Nathan Bedford Forrest. As an old man, his father had married a much younger woman (obviously as a woman his own age would have been too old to have children).

[lurk]

This money has to be flowing into bank accounts with ID numbers. Let’s find out who they are.