Posted on 03/26/2025 12:15:10 PM PDT by Twotone
The Department of Government Efficiency announced Monday evening that it had purged roughly 7 million Social Security number-holders listed as at least 120 years old.
Earlier this month, the DOGE revealed that the Social Security Administration's database had listed 1.3 million people as alive who were 150 to 159 years old, over 3.5 million 140 to 149, nearly 4 million 130 to 139, and almost 3.5 million 120 to 129.
During President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 6, he warned about some of the issues already discovered at the SSA.
“The Government Accountability Office, a federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation, and we are working very hard to stop it,” Trump stated. “We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors.”
He highlighted that there are millions still listed as number-holders, including over a thousand people 220 to 229 years old, one person 240 to 249, and one 360.
“More than 100 years older than our country,” Trump remarked.
The DOGE posted on X last week that it had been performing “a major cleanup” at the SSA. At the time, the department noted that it found 3.2 million individuals over 120 years old but not yet marked as deceased.
“More work still to be done,” it noted.
On Monday, the DOGE provided another update on its progress, announcing that it had marked several million more individuals as deceased in the SSA’s database.
“For the past 3 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 7 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased,” the DOGE stated.
“Another ~5 million to go,” it added.
Elon Musk stated in February that there were “FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers” than actual U.S. citizens.
“This might be the biggest fraud in history,” he remarked.
It is unclear how many of the individuals listed are still being sent Social Security benefits.
The SSA released a statement last month addressing the “aged records.”
“The data reported in the media represent people who do not have a date of death associated with their record. While these people may not be receiving benefits, it is important for the agency to maintain accurate and complete records,” the agency’s statement read.
Acting Social Security Commissioner Lee Dudek said, “We are steadfast in our commitment to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in our programs, and actively correcting the inconsistencies with missing dates of death.”
Now find out who’s been cashing the checks.
I keep reading that it is unclear how many, if any, were actually getting checks. It’s just another data field so why is it unclear?
bogus ssn sold to an illegal border jumper.
not hard to figure out.
It doesn’t say they are receiving benefits and cashing checks. I think there are many on the roles who just haven’t been purged yet. It would be interesting to know how many 100+ years old are actually getting benefits.
Why would they claim such a birth date?
That bothers me, too. We keep seeing that gov’t software programs are way out of date. Maybe there’s some unresolved issue there.
It is said that this is the result of a default set in old programming language.
It may just be a silly bookkeeping error - as long as no one is getting those checks.
If seven million “120 year olds” are getting checks that are really going to the DNC, now THAT would be a big problem.
I wonder if these false records could somehow be used for illegal voting.
“It’s just another data field so why is it unclear?”
You’d think so. Why didn’t Musk and company wait until that “another data field” was added to the analysis before producing their report?
Old programming language.
When the "year" field is left blank, COBOL defaults to "1875".
That makes sense.
(When I was still working, there was a government form my office had to fill out every year. It wasn’t until around 2018 or so that they even had the form as a writable pdf available online; I was filling it out for years on an old IBM Selectric.)
Was listening passively to radio yesterday, dont remember the program or guest. Might have been Treasury sec. Anyway, gov system was old mainframe. Congress funded conversion to modern system in maybe 1992, and the consultants are still getting paid every year, and the conversion is still not done. I think it was the IRS.
Trump tweeted about DOGE finding things that will make every blue state red, anout a month ago. I think they will purge about 20 million dead/illegal people from voter rolls and destroy the Dems cheating machine.
There goes some more democrat donations up in smoke.
“When the “year” field is left blank, COBOL defaults to “1875”.”
What Is COBOL and How Does It Handle Dates?
COBOL, one of the oldest programming languages, doesn’t have a built-in “date” data type. Instead, programmers store dates in whichever format they prefer, often using numeric character strings. For example, it’s common to store dates as 6-digit strings like “YYMMDD” (e.g., 230526 for May 26, 2023). There’s no default date value in COBOL. If a date is missing or not initialized, the system will usually show an error or use whatever placeholder the programmer sets.
“It is said that this is the result of a default set in old programming language.”
Musk debunked that old myth.
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