Posted on 02/19/2025 5:45:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments.
Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits — a “HUGE problem,” Musk wrote.
It is true that improper payments have been made, including some to dead people. But the numbers thrown out by Musk and the White House are overstated and misrepresent Social Security data.
“If you take all of those millions of people off Social Security, all of a sudden we have a very powerful Social Security with people that are 80 and 70 and 90, but not 200 years old,” Trump said.
Late Monday, Musk posted on his social media platform X: “Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” and “Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as “ALIVE” when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem. Obviously. Some of these people would have been alive before America existed as a country. Think about that for a second …”
A July 2024 report from Social Security’s inspector general states that from FY 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or less than 1% — in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.
In January, U.S. Treasury clawed back more than $31M in a variety of federal payments— not just Social Security payments— that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that former Treasury official David Lebryk said was “just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Ya gonna believe the people whose job it is to perpetuate their jobs and make sure the corruption and waste is NOT discovered? The ultra-liberal AP who has no means to dig into the data?
Or are you going to believe the independent people brought in with powerful analytical tools to examine the SS books and uncover the waste, fraud and corruption?
I know who I believe.
The checks aren’t going to dead people they are going to criminals who stole their IDs (most likely illegal aliens)
my money says they are recycled SS numbers being used by foreign national criminal invaders.
Musk and Trump never claimed they were getting payments. This a lie. They only claimed there were SS accounts with the “deceased” field set to FALSE.
AFAIK they never said that tens of millions of dead people were getting SS checks. They said that tens of millions of people are still in the SS database marked as alive. That doesn’t mean all of them are getting checks.
False claim of a false claim!
*only* $71.8 Billion in waste, fraud, abuse from this one agency...
Well that’s mere pocket change...
These are the same people that said there is “no evidence” that covid came from a chinese lab either
Obviously.
The SS Inspector General told the SS to investigate the details and the SS refused to do it.
Agitation and Propaganda has no idea what checks went to these fake social security numbers because the work has not yet been done.
In addition these identity theft cases (which is what they are) may involve the theft of all kinds of federal and of course other funds.
I suspect much of this is caused by anomalies in the old computer systems, but I don’t care. Because there IS fraud and if only 10% turns out to be real fraud and not computer glitchs, that’ll be great. Plus, it puts people on notice that “we are watching” and if you do illegal crap, you will be caught”.
Illegals buy SSNs of dead people off the street and off the internet, its how they are able to buy homes, get cars, etc
Correct.
This report cut off the part where he said *if* they are getting benefits and that they would have to look into that.
Trump/Musk never said tens of millions over 100 were getting checks
Almost all of these are fraud (identity theft) and not computer glitches.
The SS confirmed that in an audit as early as 2015.
The SS refused to investigate further.
Sure, Ass Press. 🙄
This! But we have the left debunking irony because they are the dumbest effin humourless idiots on the planet whose sarcasm meters were strangled in the crib as part of their transformation to communism.
And if checks don’t go out, why are the owners of the numbers not listed as deceased?
Even if there is little fraud there is still huge potential for fraud.
And as the SS number is still valid, voter registration abuse.
How many of those 120 year olds vote?
they’re going to Stacy Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and friends.
Bullsh*t.
Thank you! This is the left’s new game. Misrepresent what was said in order to call it a lie.
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