President Trump has spoken about many of the cuts made by Doge, led by billionaire Elon Musk, who “didn't need this,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump said in his speech to Congress on Tuesday he is investigating what his administration describes in the country's social security program as “a shocking level of incompetence and fraud and shocking level of fraud.”
Trump noted that the government's database lists millions of Social Security recipients from over 100 years ago, some reportedly “more than 160 years.” He also claimed that one person, who is allegedly 360, is listed in the database.
“We have a healthier country than we thought,” Trump nodded and nodded to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.
The Treasury says Doge has “read-only” access to the payment system in a letter to Congress
“The money is being paid to many of them,” he added, “this issue really hurts social security and harms our country.”
The Social Security Administration rounds out clawbacks at 10% of benefits checks rather than 100%. (istock / istock)
Comments come after the billionaire Elon Mask too I attended on Tuesday, A preliminary examination of Social Security records by the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claimed that evidence was found that the Safety Net Program was paying benefits to the age of 150.
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Musk also posted a photo of the spreadsheet he said. He was from the Social Security database, which shows the number of people who falsely set the number of people in the bucket of each age. It has shown over 17 million such records to people over 100 years of age.
Elon Musk will be seen at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, December 5th, 2024, after meeting on the hilltop to talk about President Donald Trump's government efficiency president. (Om Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images/Getty Images)
After Doge, which aimed to eliminate $2 trillion in wasted government spending, and gained access to the Social Security Agency's (SSA) internal system, Treasury officials told Congress that the technical executives would provide “read-only access” to the government's payment system, emphasizing that the agency has pledged to protect the system.
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In 2015, the SSA and its inspectors considered the number of people in the system with no death records listed as over the age of 112. The SSA found that 6.5 million owners over the age of 112 had no death information in the system, but other records suggested that the majority of them had retired.
Of these, the SSA issued payments to 266 numerical owners, and while IG reviews suggest that only 13 beneficiaries could be over 112, the remaining 253 found conflicting SSA records showing that the beneficiaries were actually not too old.
Eric Revell and Landon Mion of Fox Business contributed to this report.
