Posted on 02/21/2025 3:28:23 AM PST by LouAvul
2 NEWS OK is full of it.
Besides people over 100 and likely dead still getting social security, I believe people are getting multiple social security checks using the same social security number, much of this is going fund illegal aliens IMO.
It’s also my belief that if you cut just 50% of the fraud out of social security, the social security fund would be over funded not destined to go bankrupt as the government tells us.
What specifically is false there?
It’s owned by Scripps Local Media.
Nuff said.
I wonder if it had anything to do with survivor benefits options?
WTF is a “2 News Ok”?! An arm of Politico? PBS?
Pick an age 100 or 115 whatever. Then have SSA do personal FTF interviews with each recipient to confirm.
I’m not sure that’s correct. I haven’t seen any information from DOGE that says anything about who is actually receiving SS payments — just the glaring errors in the database of SS numbers and the demographic information about the people attached to them.
Look to nursing homes to start, senior living centers, etc.
Then any “heirs” the person may have had.
If payments were going out, they most likely were direct deposit.
Start with this gem
Nearly 19 million people aged 100 or older were still listed as alive, including about 11 million born in 1899 or earlier who had not been removed from the books, according to a 2023 report by the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General
Say average check $1000/month * 12 months =$12,000 per person per year. Multiply that by 19 MILLION and “potential” fraud is $228 BILLION PER YEAR.
Simple dirty data causes BILLIONS IN FRAUD WASTE AND ABUSE!
Sloppy government systems run by sloppy/lazy government employees.
We'll see about that. If Musk says there's fraud, there's probably fraud.
They have NO PROOF THAT THESE PEOPLE AREN’T GETTING CHECKS!
The dead obviously aren’t getting the payments. It’s the relatives or even maybe others.
The Key word is -— “ likely” which can be interchanged with-— “hopefully” contextually accepted of coarse for their agenda driven so called news
This is a lie. Musk and Trump DID NOT SAY millions or tens of millions were getting payments from Social Security. They said millions who are obviously dead are listed as alive in the Social Security database and that this creates the possibility for massive fraud.
That is not only true, it is undeniably true. In fact, nobody has denied that the database has long been corrupted in exactly this fashion. What they said was that few of those obviously dead people were getting payments. That has yet to be checked.
DUH !
Does Social Security check with the coroner’s offices in the counties and cities? Are those offices required to report deaths to Social Security? All checks are transmitted electronically. If someone dies, and no relatives claim the deposits, the banks close the accounts for inactivity after a few years, which vary according to state escheat laws. The inactive accounts are then transferred to the state treasurer. If there is misuse of funds, it has to be on some very large scale. Lets see if DOGE can uncover what is happening.
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