Washington – The Trump Administration falsely claims that ten-deaths over 100 years receive Social Security payments.
In recent days, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk Billionaire consultant They said in social media and press conferences that people aggravates benefits 100, 200 and 300. Wrote “giant problem” Department of Government Efficiency Excavations in federal agencies to promote waste, fraud and abuse.
The truth is that incorrect payments have been made, including others dead. But Musk and white households thrown by Social Security data is passed and misrepresented.
Here are the facts:
On Tuesday, Trump said at the Florida press conference “We have more than 100 years of people” over 100 years “.” They are fraudulent or incomprehensible, “Trump said.
“If you remove all of these million people from Social Secure, we suddenly have a very powerful social security with 80 to 70 and 90 people, but not 200 years,” he said. He has said there is a system of system for 360 years.
On Monday, Musk published X Social Media Platform. “When the dead is a huge problem. Of course. Some of these people would survive before America existed as a country. Think that for a second …”
A July 2024 Report From the 2015 General Social Security Inspectors in 2022, the agency paid $ 8.6 billion in advantages, including $ 71.8 billion in less than 1% – Incorrect payments. Most of the wrong payments were declining living people.
In addition, early January, the US treasure retreated More than $ 31 million In a variety of federal payments, not only Social Security payments, who went wrong with the dead, said David Lebry’s official Finance was “the tip of the iceberg”.
Money was recovered as part of a five-month pilot program after issuing congers Treasury Department Temporary access Social Security Administration “Death Master File” as part of the Omnibus omnibus. SSA maintains the most famous federal database of people who have died and has more than 142 million records, which return to 1899, returning to 1899 to the Treasury.
The treasure was calculated in January in January that he would recover more than $ 215 million in a period of three years, until 2026 in December 2023.
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Part of the confusion comes from the Social Security software system called Cobol, which lacks the date type in its programming. This means that lack of birth or incomplete entries will be the default reference to more than 150 years ago. The organization of cable news reported the use of the Kobol programming language in the Social Security Administration.
Also, a series Reports The main Social Security Administration Inspector in March 2024 and the Agency has not established a new system to properly organize death information in their database, approximately the number of people’s social security born in 1920. marked as dead. This does not mean, however, that these people were receiving benefits.
The agency decided not to update the database, due to the cost of this, it goes up to $ 9 million.
A July 2023 Social Security Oig Report “None of the numbers discussed in the report receives SSA payments.” And, from September 2015, the agency automatically pays payments to people older than 115 years old.
Chuck Bahous, the main strategies in the Mercatus Center of the Mercatus Center at the University of George Mason University, “Elon Musk’s two joy roots and puts wrong stops.”
But to select federal government places, when error rates are high, “Social Security would be close to the bottom of the list, not the top,” Blahous said. “The incorrect Medicaid payment rates are quite significant, and ACA rose after Medicaid expansion.”
“Depending on all paths – go after the wrong payment found, but let’s not pretend when the system is the biggest economic problems,” he said.
Sita Nataraj Slavovek, a professor of the University of George Mason and a public government policy, said Musk and Trump claims that people think that people appear to solutions for government financial problems.
“This claim is true that people can think that people are simple solutions to economic security in society. Somehow, without making sacrifices through greater taxes or by lower advantage, Slavov said. “This is not true.”
Karoline Levitt, White House spokesman returned to the main report of Social Security inspectors.
“A previous study revealed that SSA paid for the wrong payment of at least $ 71.8 billion,” he said. “The Social Security Administration is also working to protect the taxpayers of the administration of administration to find fraud and abuse.”
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