On 2/17/25 8:35 PM, retired1 wrote:

On 2/17/25 5:04 PM, P. Coonan wrote:

Elon Musk and his crack team at the Department of Government Efficiency
have been scouring federal data for signs of waste, fraud, and abuse.

They may have found something massive at the Social Security
Administration.

Musk shared via X on Sunday that there are hundreds of thousands, if not
millions, of Americans listed as alive in the Social Security databases
who have probably been dead for quite a while.

The database included over 1.3 million people between the ages of 150
and
159, nearly 122,000 between the ages of 160 and 169, and over 6,000
between the ages of 170 and 179.

That does not include a few thousand more between 180 and 229 years old,
meaning they were born well before the Civil War.

“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of
people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!” Musk told
the public while sharing a screenshot of the data.

“Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting
Social
Security.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj9thj2bMAAhKIk?format=jpg&name=900x900

He may not be far off.

There was one person listed on the Social Security rolls between 240 and
249 years old, and another between 360 and 369 years old.

That means there is supposedly one American alive who saw the earliest
days of the republic, and another who started his life squarely
during the
colonial era.

For the record, the oldest person to ever live in modern history was
Jeanne Calment, who lived just over 122 years, according to the Guinness
Book of World Records.

She was born in 1875 and died in 1997.

There are a handful of others who lived to such a ripe old age.

But according to the data uncovered by Musk, their longevity is not all
that impressive, and the Guinness Book of World Records needs a serious
update.

The records from Social Security indicated that there are actually more
than 7.4 million Americans alive today between the ages of 130 and 149.

Musk did not reveal whether those supposed senior citizens are still
receiving payouts, but he is not optimistic about what this finding says
about the soundness of our bureaucracy.

“There are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are >> citizens in the USA,” Musk added. “This might be the biggest fraud in
history.”

At best, the Social Security Administration has been asleep at the
wheel,
failing to conduct basic maintenance on its records.

At worst, the taxpayer is currently shelling out millions of payments to
people claiming the identities of long-dead Americans, indeed reflecting
one of the worst frauds ever recorded.

In any case, the latest revelation from Musk shows massive government
incompetence and explains exactly why reforming and downsizing the
federal
beast is a serious necessity.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/social-security-fraud-nearly-1-

5-million-americans-listed-as-over-150-years-old-1-041-over-220-years-
old/ar-AA1zen8D

Does Musk and others here realize that SSA keeps a database of ALL SS recipients who have died called the "SS Death Index", used by many in genealogical research.  I have several ancestors on this index and I
assure you they are NOT receiving any payments.  One grandfather would
show as 136 , born 1889, died 1973

Just 1 more wacko conspiracy theory :-(   Jeez......

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