Elon is coming for social security

[Anonymous]

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Is there anyone in this administration who can tell the truth about anything? I get that politicians on both sides lie, but they are so craven and despicable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

Of course. You don’t sound like a Democrat. They promote fraud and abuse of regular tax paying Americans.

America voted to drain the swamp.

There has not been a single allegation or referral for prosecution for fraud by DOGE. Not one.

MAGA's truth = "people are saying".. "see, there was that *ONE* instance"....

[Anonymous]

The receptionist at my physician’s office is spending her birthday today going to the SS office. How utterly sad. We are broken.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

Of course. You don’t sound like a Democrat. They promote fraud and abuse of regular tax paying Americans.

America voted to drain the swamp.

There has not been a single allegation or referral for prosecution for fraud by DOGE. Not one.

Because DOGE has got nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

Of course. You don’t sound like a Democrat. They promote fraud and abuse of regular tax paying Americans.

America voted to drain the swamp.

There has not been a single allegation or referral for prosecution for fraud by DOGE. Not one.

Because DOGE has got nothing.

They did show us their third rate programming skills. Are we surprised they found nothing?

[Anonymous]

They’re stopping paper checks.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/modernizing-payments-to-and-from-americas-bank-account/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The receptionist at my physician’s office is spending her birthday today going to the SS office. How utterly sad. We are broken.

Does she prefer to avoid the internet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re stopping paper checks.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/modernizing-payments-to-and-from-americas-bank-account/

Whaaaaat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

It would. If Trump were serious he’d have an army of forensic accountants and fraud investigators on the case. Not teen aged coding bros.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

But they aren't. That's simply not the case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

It would. If Trump were serious he’d have an army of forensic accountants and fraud investigators on the case. Not teen aged coding bros.

Exactly! Dems are not opposed to finding fraud or identifying government waste like many MAGA claim--it's the manner in which it's done that we object to. The whole DOGE exercise is not normal, professional, or accurate. The federal government is not a private company like Twitter. And MAGA is not the first party in power to try to reduce government waste. Clinton did it 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

The word if is doing all the work in your premise. DOGE hasn’t found anything above the audited .75% error rate— and most of that isn’t fraud. It’s actual user and SSA errors.

Come back with this argument when actual fraud is even 1%, let alone 10%.

Look, I get it. They want to find an extra trillion dollars, because they need to offset tax cuts to millionaires. And trillions flow though SSA, so it’s a good place to start looking for lots of $$ and an easy win. Here’s what is missing from their logic— because so much $$ flows through SSA, it’s already audited to death— internally and by external auditors. And always passes its audits. Maybe because it has good systems and there is minimal fraud.

Maybe instead go talk to the DOD, which routinely fails the audits SSA always passes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it turns out that 10% or more of social security payments are fraudulent, wouldn’t canceling these payments massively strengthen the staying power of social security for the rest of us?

It would. If Trump were serious he’d have an army of forensic accountants and fraud investigators on the case. Not teen aged coding bros.

Except SSA already has an army of forensic auditors— internal and external. There was an ALJ (one) teaming up with a Representative and MD (singular on both) to commit fraud back in 2010 or so. SSA is still dealing with the fallout and redetermining Huntington WVA cases. And people went to jail. Now internal quality review samples any ALJ with a payment rate outside the norm, and SSA cross checks to make sure no ALJ has too high a pay rate to a specific Rep. There’s your fraud.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The receptionist at my physician’s office is spending her birthday today going to the SS office. How utterly sad. We are broken.

Does she prefer to avoid the internet?

Well, assume she wants to be sure her claim is being processed. That's a lot easier to do in person and on the phone than wait for the website to spew something up or not.

This is about people's ability to pay for food and housing, it's not a game or something optional.