Here's a 'dead' person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to
say
"DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People," the headlines read this past week.
I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on
Capitol Hill.
Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson's death were completely the
opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency
had claimed was rampant.
"You wake up one day and discover you're dead," Johnson told me. "It's
been truly surreal."
That's the biggest difference -- my deceased guy turns out to be very
much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed
as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still
drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or
something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start
clawing back his benefits.
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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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