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2025-02-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Elon Musk cries ''fraud'' on 20 million in Social Security database over age 100

Follow up to this story from yesterday.

[NYPOST] Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to uncover ''the biggest fraud in history'' when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over the age of 100 years old.

''According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!'' Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old.

''Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,'' he joked, adding that ''there are FAR more 'eligible' social security [sic] numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history.''

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Musk's bombshell has long been known by the Social Security Administration's (SSA) watchdog, which released an audit in July 2023 showing that 18.9 million people listed as 100 years or older — but not dead — were in the database.

Only 86,000 people living in the US at the time were actually centenarians, according to the Census Bureau.

Posted by Fred 2025-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11150 views ] Top

#1 Start an investigation.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-18 00:27|| 2025-02-18 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 DOGE says it found nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-18 02:30|| 2025-02-18 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Acting head of Social Security quits after clash with DOGE over data: Report

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-18 02:34|| 2025-02-18 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 $4.7T?? That's almost real money! says the Dims.
Seriously though, keep on digging. I worry about Ft Knox, but the DOD audit should be ... interesting.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-02-18 03:02|| 2025-02-18 03:02|| Front Page Top

#5 “Fraud” is fraud unless they can produce all the geezers.in actuality its millions of frauds that need to be tracked back to people cashing the checks.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-18 04:55|| 2025-02-18 04:55|| Front Page Top

#6 "This [SS] Might Be The Biggest Fraud In History"

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-18 06:52|| 2025-02-18 06:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ we're just getting started. The next 18 months are going to be 'interesting times'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-18 07:49|| 2025-02-18 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 just because you are in the SSecurity data base doesn't mean you are getting SSecurity payments. Obviously the younger people in the data base haven't reached the minimum age. The older people may not have the required number of quarters with earnings.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-18 14:41|| 2025-02-18 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 When a parent receives Social Security retirement or disability benefits, or dies, their child may also receive benefits. Under certain circumstances, a stepchild, adopted child, or dependent grandchild or step-grandchild also may qualify - cite

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-18 15:11|| 2025-02-18 15:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm anxious to learn where all the money escaped to.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-18 16:36|| 2025-02-18 16:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Lots of monies going into lots of blackholes. Transparency has sucked up until now (he thought to himself hopefully).

Posted by JohnQC 2025-02-18 17:49|| 2025-02-18 17:49|| Front Page Top

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