"If you wanted to cut waste, fraud and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted MORE waste, fraud and abuse, you would fire them."
Pete Buttigieg (who did NOT gut air traffic safety and had ZERO major plane crashes.) (And does NOT get $8mil in taxpayer money per DAY.)
The IG's were there to prevent and find waste, fraud, and abuse, and if you've ever worked in a federal program, as I have, you fear the IG's office. They do and will find things in an audit.
Of course, it’s just a way for Elon to exert his power over🇺🇸’s who need their money! I’ll need mine in 13 Years…& I’m not playing it better be there all $200, 240+ for my 40 Years + the 12 more…
It’s not possible that 40% of the calls SAA receives are ppl trying to get fraudulent benefits. Musk and DOGE boys need to learn we do not believe them.
It’s way lower than Trump giving Musk 400 million from the Treasury for SpaceX after Musk gave him 300 million in campaign donations. The only fraud is Trump/Musk/Republicans.
Which means absolutely nothing to those who are currently in charge of our government. They want that money that we we the American citizen who worked two and three jobs almost every year they worked stole their money and wanna give it back to the billionaires.
Facts and truth don’t make the media. Cause the Conservatives own it. @mcuban.bsky.social please buy a newspaper or social media app. Hopefully Tesla goes down and F’elon has to sell his Twitter shares.. that’s the goal folks. #teslaboycott
Omg, I’m afraid you’re right. That concern is founded. As if we don’t have enough trouble with everything right now! Trump clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing! 😡
They want to turn the whole thing into a 401k menu pick list where folks use it like Acorns... Big banks and investment firms get an immediate infusion of monopoly money... Not the good at all...✌️
So there's fraud is what ur saying. We'll have to sue all the disabled people to get that govt money back so we can give it to the billionaires so they can buy more jets tax free.
You have the option of logging into SS site with email and password or ID.ME. I tried logging in yesterday with email and password and the site stated that I had used ID.ME and then required me to video chat with someone to prove myself. It's getting worse.
Far less than the president with a conviction for 34 felony counts of fraud. All this fraud is bullshit by a bullshit false organization that has not been approved by anyone but a convicted felon and his rich cohort in crime.
Trump clearly stated he is not going to touch social security. But there is a better way to distribute benefits that doesn’t involve 60,000 employees. Much in the same way that at birth the RN knows you’re gonna be on it. And that’s fine. Just like the rep also does 3 days before he answers phone.
And how much of that fraud is dead annuitants still receiving payments because family members don't know how to stop them or don't have access to their bank accounts. Or, they might not have dependents.
It's clear that we don't really have a perfect system to report deaths to stop SS payments. What if it's a decayed body that sits in the morgue forever because no one reported the person missing?
Yes, true. If the coroner has no identity for that person, there can be no report. I assume this is a very small portion of cases, but also a real portion. The system could/should be improved. To me, firing the people who could be tasked with improvement won’t accomplish that.
In these extremely rare cases anything paid to that person would be easily recovered. Also beneficiaries have to keep things updated & if they don’t respond their benefits will be suspended until the agency gets a response or the proof of their death.
Not even! The “fraud” isn’t social security though. It is criminals.
You don’t shut down all the banks because someone got a credit card.
You don’t close down the post office because someone stole a package off your porch.
MAGA is blaming gov services for the acts of very few people.
This is around the same for any of the federal programs. Fraud is usually around a half percentage or less. Nothing like the magas would have you think. They like to say the immigrants are getting fraudulent payments, etc. Total BS. Immigrants can't access benefits, but they do pay taxes.
Want inspiration to protect Social Security? I counter Utah Sen John Curtis claim that cutting SS reduces the national debt while asking where the oversight is.
As we all know the idea of fraud, waste and abuse is nothing but a pretext. It is not based on reality, which is why they have shown no evidence of it.
I'm looking for an explanation of this. Whatever link you click on SSA site this is the screen that you get. You cannot log in. And check out the service hours. Anybody ever heard of a website not being available during different times of the day?
The SAME people who believe there is fraud in Social Security believe migrants are being given 10s of thousands of dollars, free homes, AND cars, and other stupid lies. And you CAN NOT convince them they are wrong.
My parents lived through the Great Depression instilling a good work ethic in me. If Social Security (which we paid into) goes away I'll be going back to work to pay the bills. ✌️
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If you wanted MORE waste, fraud and abuse, you would fire them."
Pete Buttigieg (who did NOT gut air traffic safety and had ZERO major plane crashes.) (And does NOT get $8mil in taxpayer money per DAY.)
Within days of taking office, President Trump fired 16 inspectors general from across the federal government.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/06/opinion/trump-doge-fires-inspectors-general.html
https://tinyurl.com/ytn35nu9
The Social Security system will be completely rewritten by DOGE.
It will be new, clean and accurate.
As such, if it decides all payments go to me, then we cannot dispute its decision. Direct complaints to Calvin Yarvin.
https://tinyurl.com/3sd5t6sf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h29OrkRE4CbZYHG-E77L_ULZxy2CGHwD/view?usp=drivesdk
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/23/were-not-being-honest-sen-curtis-says-is-deceiving-about-social-security-cuts/
You don’t shut down all the banks because someone got a credit card.
You don’t close down the post office because someone stole a package off your porch.
MAGA is blaming gov services for the acts of very few people.
That’s 730,000 erroneous records.
40% would be over 29,000,000 erroneous records.
I don’t remember 29 million extra phone calls coming in.
https://app.box.com/s/3xkjghpzqhay5l8p72p6e4bewg9m5tf1
Unlike the government contract system. The SSA just assumes every applicant is a lying piece of shit.
I've done many payrolls for many companies
it's not pretty 😬
NOWHERE in this article do you read that SS Trust Fund payments are NOT subsidized by the Government. Zero. Nada. Zilch. #HandsOff! It’s MY money!
Link➔ https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/31/trump-musk-waste-fraud-social-security/82739772007/