The White House now doubling down on Musk's false claim that "tens of millions" of dead ppl receive Social Security benefits. Every credible report suggests the number is in the thousands. Mayyybe tens of thousands. "Tens of millions" is just false. The sky is not yellow and made of marshmallows. - ThreadSky

jeffstein.bsky.social • 5 days ago

The White House now doubling down on Musk's false claim that "tens of millions" of dead ppl receive Social Security benefits. Every credible report suggests the number is in the thousands. Mayyybe tens of thousands.

"Tens of millions" is just false. The sky is not yellow and made of marshmallows.

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konspikuous.bsky.social•5 days ago

Get an accurate number of deceased, establish cause...then report how laughably full of shit the Musk administration is.

ocelots1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yo, where can one sign up to receive some of this dead person money? Asking for a friend.

gertskovpetersen.bsky.social•5 days ago

Found this short LinkedIn article explaining the known technical reasons (coding issues) behind many 100, 120, and 150-year-old people. Fraud is likely, but many more cases is likely due to technical issues.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/doge-trips-up-cobol-y2k-don-hilborn-vg1xc/

weaselfd.bsky.social•5 days ago

And Musk is not a real human being

factsandfiction.bsky.social•5 days ago

My take: They are going to stop all the payments and then reorganize them according to racial or political criteria, so their followers will be grateful to get a few crumbs. If you’re gonna Nazi, you need to share some of the loot with the faithful and make them feel superior.

harrislevy.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think the goal here is to undermine public confidence in Social Security so they can privatize it.

ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social•5 days ago

Another interesting piece of information would be how long. I wouldn't suspect anything nefarious in the process if *one* monthly payment gets deposited for someone who just died; if it goes on for years that's a different thing.

penbird42.bsky.social•5 days ago

in COBOL the epoch starts on 1885. So someone without a known birth date gets a zero, which makes them now "150 years old." Only an idiot reading the raw records would think this was social security fraud. The user interface will display the correct information; a live person with no birth date.

zephhowell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Maybe it's a threat. Like he's threatening us.

"You get benifits? Well millions of DEAD people get benefits!"

Because he's going to get a lot of vulnerable people killed by what he has already done so it is true.

sarajanemaki.bsky.social•4 days ago

I absolutely take it as a threat, yes.

lordomicron.bsky.social•5 days ago

This means they're planning to raid and ultimately destroy Social Security as we know it—based on how things are going, I expect a 19-year-old bro, who is just...a terrible human being, to manually merge the Social Security Trust Funds and rename it "Sovereign Trust."

saneenglish.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not yet, but maybe once they fully kill the EPA the sky will turn sticky and sweet

caitbrie.bsky.social•5 days ago

And it’s a common problem with any plan or entity that writes “insurance” or “annuities” for an aging population. Every major life insurance company for example. Not every death is reported./1

caitbrie.bsky.social•5 days ago

/2 Every year in Q1 they do computerized searches of data bases where they can match or potentially match names etc and then reconcile and close out. Social Security is no different BUT it has a bigger problem in that a lot of older records are not digitized.

caitbrie.bsky.social•5 days ago

/3. But this doesn’t mean they are paid. Payment lists are separately maintained.

kootafoot.bsky.social•5 days ago

But voters get sucked right into it and it becomes fact! Democrats need to learn how to do this. Honesty is counter productive to winning elections because humans are a very failed breed.

twobordercollies.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sure does smell like they want your survivor benefits when you spouse dies

chrisk09.bsky.social•5 days ago

How many SSA recipients are there in total. Is it still around 70 million people?

So “tens of millions” would suggest that at least 20 million of those are false claims?

Big, if true, but it doesn’t sound true at all.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•4 days ago

their claim that millions of 120- and 150-year-olds get checks is sheer nonsense.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•4 days ago

and with their methods the doge freaks can’t find real fraud

tinz.bsky.social•5 days ago

In that case I'd say it's pretty safe to call it a lie!

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