Social Security has removed from its rolls 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months.
As a result, in March DOGE began to update the American people on the massive cleanup begun by Social Security. In a March 18 update, DOGE said Social Security had marked 3.2 million social security number holders aged 120 or older as deceased, warning that there was still more work to be done.
Over one month later, on April 24, DOGE provided another update, revealing that a stunning 11 million individuals listed as age 120+ were now marked as deceased.
And in the most recent update, delivered last week, DOGE revealed that a total of 12.3 million individuals listed as 120+ years old were now officially marked as deceased in the system.
“Some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file. These will be investigated in a follow-up effort,” DOGE added.
Continue the investigation to determine who was cashing the checks – an act of defrauding the system!
This should save some serious money. More than 12 million is not a small number. If by chance they find at least one person over 120 then I would give them a lottery bonus of a million dollars.
Get all the illegals who syphon off our welfare system too,.
Many were just errors which weren’t addressed for payouts. Sounds easy to just delete…but with much of governments behind the scenes personnel (human resources) automation databases are outdated. Some over 20 yrs old. (Remember, Fed Govt retirements are still done by paper and sent to a Deep mountain in Boyers, PA)
When attempts to purge the system failed, leadership just said we will push it forward a couple fiscal years then address it again. Do that 10 times and you have millions and millions of errors and it looks like complete fraud waste and abuse. Its mostly politics.
How many of them got mail in ballots?