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| And They All Voted Democrat: 25 mil listed as over 100 in SS database |
| 2025-02-17 |
| [GatewayPundit] Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Uncovers Over 25 Million People Ages 100+ in Social Security Database, Some Older Than the Constitution: “There are a Lot of Vampires Collecting Social Security” Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database. The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself. Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.” “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that approximately 101,000 Americans are aged 100 and older, representing about 0.03% of the total U.S. population. This group, known as centenarians, is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades, reaching around 422,000 by 2054, according to the Pew Research Center. Individuals aged 110 and above are referred to as supercentenarians, a subgroup that is exceedingly rare. As of February 2025, the Gerontology Research Group reported that 136 Americans belong to this category. Currently, the oldest living American is Naomi Whitehead, born on September 26, 1910, in Georgia, making her 114 years old. The longest-lived person in U.S. history is Sarah Knauss, who lived to be 119 years and 97 days, passing away on December 30, 1999. |
| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #12 They had an IG that was drawing a salary. Everyone running the system needs to be part of the next pickleball tournament in Federal prison. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-02-17 19:33 |
| #11 Running sanity checks on a database is 1st year community college data processing. Same with checking a list of the recently deceased against the voter registration roles. Seems like something auditors would insist on, at least in the private sector. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-02-17 18:49 |
| #10 I know that when my dad died in 2006, SSA found out and demanded his estate pay back a portion of his last payment. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2025-02-17 18:29 |
| #9 Ref #7 - Pretty sure the Popsicles are, not sure about the brain dead vegetables stealing oxygen, after all, people thought Biden was President. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2025-02-17 18:09 |
| #8 Given a power down, yes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-02-17 17:34 |
| #7 Just tossing it out there.... Are people on Life Support systems or in Cryogenics Freeze, officially dead? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-02-17 16:10 |
| #6 ...that how the Japanese were regarded as the longest living population. Relatives weren't reporting deaths to keep the pension money flowing. They're not even counting the number of people who the government has extended benefits to who never paid into the system. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-02-17 13:25 |
| #5 Direct deposit into a joint checking account held by the dead beneficiary and his/her spouse, son, daughter, former business partner, whatever or whoever. SS just keeps depositing that money month after month... But, hey, what if there is a secret society of people who have figured out how to live that long? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-02-17 13:18 |
| #4 Wouldn’t it be lovely if it turns out, once the data base is cleaned up, Social Security isn’t about to go broke after all? I’m less sanguine about Medicare, but even so. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-02-17 12:43 |
| #3 64 million more people in the database than the current population of the US AND those who have died since the system was organized in the 1930's. And how did ANYONE manage to file for social security with an age of over 300??? |
| Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 2025-02-17 12:36 |
| #2 Sunlight long, long overdue. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-02-17 12:31 |
| #1 I probably mentioned this story previously but years ago my daughter had a part-time job at Panera. A young immigrant working there said he had 3 jobs but technically he was only permitted to have one based on his immigration status. So he had 3 different SSA #. Sooner or later he was going to figure out how to milk the system in multiple states and addresses. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2025-02-17 11:43 |