Posted on 08/14/2025 12:50:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
On the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, President Donald J. Trump delivered a stirring proclamation in the Oval Office, promising to “Make Social Security Great Again.”
Trump celebrated the passage of his signature legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes a temporary senior tax deduction, effectively eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits for many recipients aged 65 and above from 2025 through 2028.
As part of the administration’s push to “root out fraud, waste, and abuse,” Trump touted removing 275,000 illegal aliens from the Social Security system and clearing 12.4 million names listed as being over 120 years old.
In his remarks and through a White House post, he claimed many of these phantom entries were getting benefits.
Trump:
“Last month, I signed one big, beautiful bill and allowed no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how’s that? Not bad, right? No tax on Social Security for our seniors.
To protect our benefits, we’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. These are people—many of them have already left the country—and yet we were sending them checks all the time.
And 275,000… that number is now even larger than that, Frank. It’s an unbelievable job, and what that’s doing is making the system strong. It’s making it strong.
Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. And we’re carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud. It’s the Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody’s ever seen.
We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database over 120 years of age. Just think of that. So we had 12.4 million names where they were over 120 years old. Is that right? That’s a hell of a statement.
So you have 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database that were over 120 years of age, meaning you were breaking records, because I’ve never heard of anybody at 125.
There were nearly 135,000 people listed who were over 160 years old, and in some cases getting payments. So somebody’s getting those payments, and we’re after that.”
The administration took credit for significant enhancements in SSA customer service: handling 70% more calls, reducing average hold times from 30 minutes to just six minutes, and driving a surge in automated self-service options, serving 90% of calls via technology-based solutions.
Field office wait times dropped 23%, and appointment usage quintupled.
More from the White House:
Social Security has transformed customer service.
The agency is handling 70% more calls than last year, while lowering the average speed of answer by 80%, from 30 minutes to just six minutes.
Improved use of technology has enabled 90% of calls to the national line to be served via automated self-service options or callbacks, further minimizing hold times.
Average customer wait times at field offices have declined by 23%, while five times as many visitors have scheduled appointments compared to last year.
All field offices are fully staffed, with employees returning to the office five days a week for the first time in years to better serve the American people. Social Security has made vast technology improvements.
Americans now have 24/7/365 access to their online accounts after reducing the longstanding scheduled downtime of 29 hours per week to zero — enabling over 280,000 more customers to access their online accounts in the first two weeks alone.
A new recording and transcription system to replace antiquated hardware is near full implementation — increasing accuracy and saving millions of dollars per year.
Innovative upgrades to phone technology have been deployed to 92% of field offices.
Social Security has driven down backlogs and delivered ahead of schedule.
There has been a 26% reduction in the backlog of initial disability claims from its all-time high last year, while the average processing time has been cut down by five days and the average wait time for a disability hearing has been cut by 60 days.
Over 3.1 million payments — totaling more than $17 billion — were sent to eligible beneficiaries under the Social Security Fairness Act five months ahead of schedule. Social Security has dramatically increased accountability.
The agency has identified more than $1 billion in cost avoidance and efficiencies this fiscal year.
The agency has addressed billions of dollars in improper payments.
After years of delay, Social Security is rolling out a new payroll information exchange that will transmit information directly from payroll providers — saving billions of dollars in payments over the next decade.
Few to none. For a small number, there are survivors drawing benefits. This came out months ago when DOGE first announced it and was quickly checked. The IRS said it was too hard to fix. Kinda like the border was too hard to secure.
What I’d like to know is, were checks being sent out to those dead and illegals?
Not so recently ... Frank Buckles (CPL, United States Army) died in 2011. Part of WV State Highway 9 is now named in his honor.
I think Trump should take the millions between 110 and 120 years old off the books too Let the two that are still alive call to complain and we’ll put them right back on.
But I go into shock when someone says "Twenty years ago" and I realize that they are speaking of 2005. My youngest employee was born in 2009. I have shirts older then that.
275K removed? That leaves what about 15 million to go?
(Waits patiently for the left and the MSM to start screaming that this is hurting women, children, and the elderly)
Sure dude.
You didn’t say a peep when he went to the White House 17 times...
When Bill Clinton was President.
“..Too many and I’d bet they are big time Democrat party. supporters!...”
The communists come to steal, kill and destroy. This is most likely part of the stealing portion to keep their continuing efforts to destroy the USA as we know it.
Union or Confederate?
A deduction for SS is not enough because states still tax SS, what we really need is no W2 for SS so states can’t tax it either. Even better would be no income tax at all, maybe like it was in the beginning.
which Dem or Pub will run on not renewing the $6000 Senior Citizen Tax deduction in 4 years
Neuropathy clinics are a growing industry.
How many of them were voting?
Are you ok?
Just imagine how many 100 to 119 years old thieves are getting money for.
That would be so sweet!
The leftist claim it’s just a quirk in the system, a glitch in the hiccup. And you’re all a bunch of poopie heads if you believe those in government would ever do anything illegal or dishonorable.
Funny, the government can tell when you owe 2 dollars on your taxes from years ago and they know all about it, have calculated what to charge you in interest, fines penalties etc. But 12,000,000 illegitimate names on the Social Security data is just a whoopsie. It’s just a minor oversight.☺
Excellent point.
They just picked the low-hanging fruit.
There were 64 million names marked as living in the SS database more than are believed to be living in the United States. Only about 25 million of those names were reported as being over the age of 120 years.
There are still lots more names to be stripped from the database. Some of them are illegals, some are completely imaginary people.
Most of those names are probably not receiving benefits, but I would bet that a considerable number of them are registered to vote - and do.
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