Posted on 08/14/2025 12:50:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
“So, how many of the 12.4 million 120 year old folks were still receiving checks/direct deposit for SS?”
They were not collecting regular Social Security payments. That would probably have been caught. Instead, many of these SS numbers were being used by illegals for other purposes.
I was going to comment on WWI myself. It ended going on 117 years ago, I can’t imagine anyone from that war is still alive, even if they went in as a young teenager.
It is interesting to look up the last veterans from any war. The oldest Revolutionary war vet lived to see the end of the Civil War.
Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces as a Royal Air Force (WRAF) service member, is generally considered to have been the last verified veteran of the war at her death on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules, who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
Should have been standard procedure from the beginning.
Wow!
I’m going into the nursing home business!
Including 042-68-4425, originally applied for by Harrison J. Bounel born in 1890, and later usurped by Barack Obama?
“””No one really gives a shit about Epstein anymore.
He’s dead. Bubba Clinton, his biggest customer, is almost dead.
Trump isn’t involved and Melania is suing over fake accusations.
Go back to your shelter boob brain.”””
Apparently sarcasm is hard for you to understand.
The 120+ year old people were as a result of a bad default in the system.
One of the things with big databases is that keeping them “clean” is a huge job. And if you are not constantly “checking” the system, it can get out of hand real fast.
I am glad they are cleaning this mess up. It would be interesting to hear a dollar number associated with these deletions. For example, there were likely very few of the 120+ year olds getting any money. It’s good to clean them out, but it doesn’t save much. Now, the illegals getting money should be leading to investigations about how and why they were being paid anything.
The question is how many of those seasoned citizens were receiving benefits.
The fact that they exist somewhere in the SS computer system is not necessarily a bad thing.
Couple of my grandma’s sisters made it a few ?ears past 100. She was also 13 of 13. The baby. Farm girl.
Was that Justice Ginsberg?
Before she died, I heard she dated a Union Officer!
There was a time when CW veterans would marry a very young girl to give her his survivors benefits. Times were hard.
That was 160 years ago.
How many of the dead...voted?
I suspect a lot of those birth dates were 01/01/1901, and I have seen a lot of databases in which birthdates like that were entered, because a birthdate was required.
I wonder how many were being used for nefarious purposes.
Woo hoo, to DOGE!
Wish Elon and Trump would hug it out.
The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 (Jan 7, 2021)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-surviving-widow-civil-war-veteran-dies-101-180976702/
Just 3-1/2 years ago.
LOL!!!
Thank you Elon and your team!
Finally! People trying to save SS by excluding the grift. Agree 100%
Thank you Elon and those that worked with you.
Guess you could, in no particular order
1. Think about it
2. Vomit
Actually, why not both? YMMV
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