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2025-02-17 Government Corruption

And They All Voted Democrat: 25 mil listed as over 100 in SS database

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Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-17 10:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 11:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Sunlight long, long overdue.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-17 12:31|| 2025-02-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 12:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 16:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Given a power down, yes

Posted by Frank G 2025-02-17 17:34|| 2025-02-17 17:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 18:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 18:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-02-17 19:33|| Front Page Top

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