At a recent rally in favor of losing Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schemmel, Elon Musk argued that the government was trying to arrest social security fraudsters. That’s what law enforcement officers did. Rightly furious The musk had revealed details of the public about the ongoing investigation during the political rally.
The truth is that there are always fraud cases under investigation. The masks have not discovered anything new. The Social Security Administration has a robust set of systems to detect, prevent and catch fraudsters. In fact, Musk’s so-called government efficiency department weakens these systems and makes fraud much more possible.
Social security fraud is extremely rare. This is because the Social Security Administration is so good at detecting it. The fraud is fair 0.00625% All of Social Security expenditures, Much lower percentage Found it with private insurance. Almost every form of fraud involves hijacking benefits or social security numbers from people who immediately notify and report it, reversing attempts at fraud.
Musk’s latest focus seems to be little difference in scams attempted across the agency’s 1-800 numbers. To prevent fraud, Doge was trying to stop most beneficiaries from verifying their identity over the phone to complete their benefits applications and modifying their direct deposit information. Fortunately, pushbacks by Americans were forced Flip of that decision.
Again, fact: Social Security is received 80 million calls per year From a number of citizens from 1 to 800. Mask and Vice President JD Vance 40% of those calls – 32 million – From a “con man who steals direct deposits.” The truth is that a direct deposit scam will only succeed once in 3,100 (short time). This is only 0.032% of 1-800 calls. Five are blocked for all attempts to hijack direct deposits.
To combat this relatively small amount of fraud compared to the total amount of legal calls, Musk’s minions planned to force millions of people a year to travel directly to field offices, with many people with limited mobility. This same group hasIt’s just been pushed outPlans are to fire 7,000 Social Security workers, as well as thousands more. This ensures that the office will be seriously understaffed or completely closed.
Americans were forced to go from their extremely secure mobile phones to the already crowded field offices thanks to musks. Or they may have tried to navigate the Social Security website.Crash more and more frequentlythank you again Elon Musk.
Furthermore, since the change and the reversal are not well explained or thought, the con artist is It is reportedly I pretend to be a Social Security employee. These scammers have contacted the beneficiaries and are threatening that their interests will be suspended if they do not provide personal information to prove their identity. That’s how Trump and Musk are opening the door to fraud. They create an environmental environment of fear and uncertainty about social security benefits that make older people far more susceptible to attempts at fraud.
Additionally, Trump and Musk have uttered other lies about Social Security fraud. They claim that a 150-year-old child is profiting. In fact, the exposed claims simply show their ignorance about social security.
What was clearly discovered by Doge’s “Whiz Kids” was that about 150-year-olds who had not received profits had positive Social Security numbers for completely justifiable reasons, including benefits from relatives who live on earnings records. Appropriately, the Social Security Administration is not wasting dedicated revenues tracking the dates of deaths of people who have not received benefits.
Musk slandered Social Security as a “Ponzi Plan” about the “Joe Rogan experience” that millions of Americans have heard. What’s the point about a program that hasn’t missed payments in almost 90 years.
Social Security has survived wars, recessions and pandemics. But Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing their best to kill it.
In mid-February, they ousted Social Security representatives after refusing to hand over American personal social security data to Doge. They replaced her with a hand-picked candidate, Leland Dudek. Since then, they have destroyed the institutional workforce, including many people responsible for preventing fraud. That includes the Social Security inspector who was in charge of the oversight.
Doge is creating waste, fraud and abuse. Trump’s representativeRecognisedMany of the leaked email exchanges about Maine’s parents’ decision to cancel contracts that allow newborns to be registered with Social Security cards at hospitals.
A Social Security official explained that cancelling the contract “provide inappropriate payments and theft of identity information.” After admitting he was acting on the directions of the Trump administration, Dudeck replied. “Cancel the contract. Inappropriate payments may rise and fraudsters may compromise their identity, but it won’t cost a child who has been exacerbated from public trust.”
Dudek himself was actually someone who acted like a “bad kid,” but he was referring to Maine Governor Janet Mills (D). In other words, the Trump administration was pleased to create waste, fraud and abuse as long as it served Donald Trump’s political purposes.
If Elon Musk is about to claim credit for the arrest of a fraudster, know that years of successful investigations are due to the efforts of our civil servants. And next time you hear Musk subtly hear about Social Security “scam”, remember that his doge operatives are the ones who are creating it.
Martin O’Malley served as Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and was the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024.. Nancy Altman is the president of Social Security..
