DOGE Finds Some Pretty Damned Interesting Information On Social Security Recipients

It is very interesting. But, what are the majority of Credentialed Media outlets running with?

Social Security head resigns over DOGE data push

The Social Security Administration’s top official resigned over the weekend in the latest clash over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive government records, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: The agency is quickly becoming a target of Elon Musk, who has claimed without conclusive evidence that there’s rampant fraud from improper payments to dead people.

No evidence, eh?

Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159

Elon Musk indicated in a post on X that millions of people listed in a Social Security database are recorded as centenarians “with the death field set to FALSE!”

“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 posted, adding a couple of rolling on the floor laughing emojis.

His post features a chart indicating there are more than 20 million listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.

Like this

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 ???????? pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025

The rest is

One would think that the head of Social Security would want to root out the improper payments to people who are dead (or do not exist). Does she actually want this fraud on her watch? It may not be her fault, but, wouldn’t it be great if she was involved in stream-lining the agency so it works best for Americans on Social Security? If all those payments were stopped wouldn’t that mean more available money? Same with the other agency heads who are freaking out.

“The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE. No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild,” Musk declared in a post on X.

Should that not be concerning? How about that the Treasury Department often leaving their symbol blank so there is no accounting for money?

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025

It’s now required for every line to be coded.

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