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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anybody looking at these numbers for more than 10 min with a critical thinking hat on should know these are just the number of SS accounts currently active. But Elon misrepresents this as the number of people in each age bracket who are currently receiving payments, so everyone in the comments and even Faux News is OMG there's massive fraud!

However, OIG already did a report on this several years ago in which [b]they concluded the cost associated with marking the dead people as dead was cost prohibitive[/b] as only a few age 100+ were actually receiving any benefits. The people in question either died decades ago and were not reported, or had been issued multiple SS numbers and only one was marked as deceased.

https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf[/quote]Wait, what? The cost of correcting a DATA TABLE is 'cost prohibitive'? What kind of Rube Goldberg machine are they running over there!

I'm beginning to understand the other thing Musk tweeted:

"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.
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People that work with social security data regularly know how it works. He hasn't taken the time to bother understanding it and is effectively acting like an armchair quarterback. He doesn't know what he is talking about. [/quote]

I know genealogy and I know how it works. One example, my grandmother died in 1951 at age 43. She had a Social Security number because she worked in a factory during WW2, but she never claimed benefits. There was no computerized database then so her death was never recorded by SS. She's probably one of those 115 year old people.[/quote]

I can almost guarantee she is.[/quote]

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