One thing I've learned to do when I have questions about social security number holders who are age 100 or older is to look up the SSA Inspector General audit report, "Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident."
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Mostly peoples' eyes would glaze over if you randomly started explaining what the SSA IG does. But here DOGE has served up an opportunity on a platter.
It's a huge problem we have dealing with all of this.
(That said, I do think Dems need to keep trying to get such attention. Trying and trying and trying.)
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/fast_facts/2023/fast_facts23.html
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The issue is missing information about people’s deaths, not their births.
1) Elon isn’t this stupid and is just lying
2) Elon is this stupid and they just filtered excel spreadsheets for DOD blanks and counted them.
Honestly, I don’t know which is more dangerous.
I prefer to call it, 'FED to you for FREE' speech, and he has a firm control of what's on the menu.
Just sayin'
I prefer to call it, 'FED to you for FREE' speech, and he has a firm control of what's on the menu.
Just sayin'
Drugs don’t help either.
The issue of these payments has been churned in congress and senate during both Trump and Biden.
https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2020/6/senate-passes-carper-kennedy-bill-to-stop-irs-payments-to-dead-people
https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2023/7/kennedy-carper-introduce-ending-improper-payments-to-deceased-people-act-to-save-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identification_number
So what do you use to prove your identity?
It just means that in any database (payroll, Healthcare, taxes, school (preschool through university), library, post office, phone company, utilities companies) my ID number is used for me.
A thing about the US and some other places that makes me more nervous is the requirement of home address on the driving license. Easy to misuse (stalking etc).
"In ... 2016 through 2020, [there were] reported approx. $8.5 billion in wages, tips, and self-employment income using 139,211 SSNs assigned to individuals age 100 or older. SSA transferred these earnings to the Earnings Suspense File ..."
It helps explain why (one of the) social security databases contains dead people. (They died before the use of electronic death records.)
We believe it likely SSA did not receive or record most of the 18.9 million individuals' death formation primarily because the individuals died decades ago- before the use of electronic death reporting. Resolving these discrepancies will improve the accuracy and completeness of the DMF.
But existing on a database is different than getting a social security payment. 98% of these folks receive no payments.
paymens and have mind eamings te ported to SeAn the paste years (siTable 2).
The fact that these individuals were age 100 or older, had no earnings in the past 50 years,
and received no SSA payments indicates they are deceased
They probably need to flag any recipient aged > 110 or so, and investigate them further. But not all 18 million.
There are also a few records claiming ages > 200. These could never have been actual people holding SSNs, given the system was created in 1936. They're probably a result of data entry errors; the original records were card-indexed.
Cost: $5-10m to clean out the old records
Benefit: Only "limited benefit" because "almost none" of these records are receiving payments.
This hardly feels like big potatoes, either way.
But DOGE gotta DOGE.
But queries ask for specific ranges of data based on keys (like birth date). Old records are excluded from the result set anyway.
This is DBMS/SQL 101.
Rookie shit.
If you are ok with some amount of error by matching only digital sources, then it would cost much less.
For example, no one tried to drive a Cybertruck in snow. That was a cost decision and I guess Tesla or Musk decided that it wasn’t worth it. Since idiots will buy the stupid things anyway.
Bet it will be a significant amount.
they most certainly deserve their social security.