Elon Musk Issues Major Social Security Warning (fraud)

Newsweek ^ | 2/11/25 | Aliss Higham

[Libloather]

Billionaire Elon Musk has said there is widespread fraud taking place in the payment of "federal entitlements" like Social Security.

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What to Know

Musk wrote on X on February 11: "At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR. It's not even close."

It follows another post from February 8 in which Musk said he was told there are currently over $100 billion per year of entitlements payments to individuals with no Social Security Number or "even a temporary ID number."

According to the official Social Security Administration website: "You need an SSN [Social Security number] to work, collect Social Security benefits, and receive certain government services."

"If accurate, this is extremely suspicious," Musk said, as he explained several steps agreed between DOGE and the Treasury Department for making future payments, including the use of "a rationale for the payment in the comment field" and categorization codes.

He continued: "When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately."

Musk also said in a separate post that "the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN [Social Security number] many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!"

Newsweek has contacted the SSA for comment via email outside of regular working hours.

[Libloather]

Musk's recent moves on the SSA have been met with considerable criticism, particularly from Democratic lawmakers and Social Security advocacy groups. Several members of Congress, along with SSA beneficiaries and others staged a rally outside the SSA offices in Washington, D.C., following a February 6 report by Semafor outlining that DOGE is "currently preparing to work" with the SSA.

The SSA can't find the fraud on their own? They have one job. Could be a lawsuit.

[Ann Archy]

LAZY!! I think USAID is even MORE MONEY!!

[RoosterRedux]

It will be interesting if we find out that Social Security is in fine shape once the fraud has been removed and the Democrat criminals are charged.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is Obama still using the social security number of some dead guy from CT?

[GOPJ]

It follows another post from February 8 in which Musk said he was told there are currently over $100 billion per year of entitlements payments to individuals with no Social Security Number or "even a temporary ID number."

I'm guessing democrats were handing out Social Security to their base as favors - same base that was getting USAid money.

[Skwor]

Laying the groundwork for a serious big reveal?

At some point I think something Musk finds is going to re-align the national psyche in that it will be so blatantly corrupt and massively egregious people will have to be held accountable at some very high levels.

[jpl]

He’s got big balls.

[Gaffer]

They don’t WANT to find fraud. It’s the simplest of things to check for duplicate use of one number. Simple.

They don’t want to know because the extra SSN usages collect some portion of wages or salaries, income from ‘somebody’ at a 6.2% clip. You cut the multiple useages, you cut the amount of money SSA takes in.

IMO, they actually know and keep track of all the uses of one number. The do this so all the extra funding contributed in the 6.2% doesn’t get added to the real owner’s account. That would make his SSN retirement payment higher.

[AndyJackson]

Wait till you see the DOD contractor scam.

[9YearLurker]

If only they could claw back the last 6 years—so Trump could deliver a surplus!

[nopardons]

BTTT

[newfreep]

[TalBlack]

“Musk also said in a separate post that “the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN [Social Security number] many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!”“

WTF is de-duplicated!!!??? Any list generated by any computer automatically will indicate duplication. Politicians are evil scum and this is just another of their skims. De-duplicated my ass!!

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. I think DOD is the big one.

[odawg]

“Is Obama still using the social security number of some dead guy from CT?”

The AI algorithms will smoke that out fairly quickly.

[Zathras]

When I worked for Intel, I heard a conversation of an Indian worker with SS demanding his parents get SS even though they had never worked in the USA.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Is Obama still using the social security number of some dead guy from CT? ::

“Musk also said in a separate post that “the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN [Social Security number] many times over”

[Phoenix8]

I wish he would reveal more sources. Why?

My liberal family members keep claiming he has no proof, just lies.

I’d like to show sources to shut them up because I beIve he is just

. But I don’t know of any.

[TermLimits4All]

I’ll bet that the 150 year olds receiving social security are in fact illegals.

[BOBWADE]

SSA is fully aware of the problem with SSN misuse. Before Biden’s planned INVASION. There was a huge issue with Identity theft. Criminal Invaders (illegal immigrant is to kind) regularly use and reuse stolen identities to work. Not uncommon to find wage credits in multiple states for the same SSN. The feds just ignored it and left the victim to sort it out on their own. Every Criminal Invader who uses a stolen SSN is guilty of a crime. Criminals should be deported...banned for life from re-entry.