Posted on 05/26/2025 7:33:05 PM PDT by bimboeruption
Grab assets! Those thieves have to pay back what they stole.
There are no checks. ALL SS benefits are electronic and have been for about 10 years now.
Identity thieves are only too happy to steal the identities of dead people—for all kinds of purposes.
That is soon to come to an end. See my latest link.
Yes, there were exceptions....but ending per President Trump EO.
Thank you all for your comments, insights, links, personal experiences and general and specific knowledge...
I’m sure, as most of you pointed out, that putting in the death date was the task at hand.
Review, if any will maybe come later.
Thanks again
Does this mean Obama no longer has a Social Security number?
How do you know that no benefits were paid to any of these individuals?
Well said. Now go after the 110 to 119 group. A higher total number are in that group are dead but on SS (and Medicaid). And an even higher total number dead are in each decade below that down to those in their 80s.
Of course, there are some in each of those decades who are still alive. At 81 I pretend to still be alive.
The variety of deaths is interesting. A funeral home lists most of these dead on the internet within a week or less of their death. I’m sure at the same time the Funeral home is on the internet making the announcement, it is notifyiong government agencies of the death, as required.
Nobody is hiding most of these deaths. Typically it takes 90-120 days from a government agency receiving notice of a death to posting it to the database. But there are stragglers that finally get posted 1 year, 2 years or even 10 and 11 years later.
Then there are the few deaths that are in the intentional fraud category. A person dies in a Nursing Home. The Nursing Home knows the person has no family. They hide the death and collect capitation or similar on their total head count. Of course the SS check has to be cashed to maintain the capitation coming.
But mostly it is the swamp’s doing and not outside private sector bad guys.
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On an individual case-by-case basis we don't know if any 120+ y/o people's SSN's were being used fraudulently by relatives, etc...but based on the fact that there are 6.38 million people in the USA over the age of 85, and 6.11 million people over the age of 85 are getting Social Security benefits, the odds of "massive" (like a million or more) numbers of fraudulent benefits being paid is pretty low.
Also, dead people (120+ y/o people) would probably not be able to readily get a direct deposit account. ;-)
https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/united-states-population-by-age/
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