President Donald Trump said his medication is investigating what helium described arsenic "shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud" successful the nation's Social Security program, during his code to Congress connected Tuesday.
Trump pointed to authorities databases listing millions of Social Security recipients that are implicit 100 years old, immoderate of whom are reportedly "over 160 years old." He besides claimed 1 idiosyncratic who was allegedly 360 years aged was listed successful the database.
"We person a healthier state than I thought," Trump quipped, nodding to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT SAYS DOGE WILL HAVE 'READ ONLY' ACCESS TO PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN LETTER TO CONGRESS
"Money is being paid to galore of them," helium added, noting that this contented "really hurts Social Security and harms our country."
The comments travel aft billionaire Elon Musk, besides in attendance connected Tuesday, claimed that a preliminary reappraisal of Social Security records by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recovered grounds that the information nett programme is paying benefits to 150-year-olds.
Musk besides posted a representation of a spreadsheet helium said was from the Social Security database showing the numbers of radical successful each property bucket with the decease tract acceptable to false. It showed much than 17 cardinal specified records for radical implicit the property of 100.
After DOGE, which aims to destruct $2 trillion successful wasteful authorities spending, gained entree to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) interior systems, a Treasury Department authoritative told Congress that the tech enforcement would person "read-only access" to the government’s outgo system, emphasizing that the bureau remains committed to safeguarding the system.
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In 2015, the SSA and its inspector wide looked into the fig of radical successful the strategy with nary decease grounds who were listed arsenic being implicit the property of 112. SSA recovered 6.5 cardinal fig holders aged 112 oregon older with nary decease accusation successful the system, but noted that different records suggested the bulk of them were deceased.
Of those, SSA issued payments to 266 fig holders — though the IG's reappraisal indicated lone 13 beneficiaries were apt property 112 oregon older, portion successful the remaining 253 cases determination were discrepancies successful SSA's records that indicated the beneficiary wasn't really that old.
FOX Business' Eric Revell and Landon Mion contributed to the report.
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