2025-02-17 19:20:03
It should be known that this problem, people who should be dead receiving millions in SS money, was identified, and solved in 2023 - almost none of the numberholders in ages above 112 recieve SSA payments anymore [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(7-1-77) Author
2025-02-17 19:45:13
Birth records that are unknown are set to 5/20/1875 which sets the age to 150. Some users over the age of 100 are still alive and are accurately collecting Social Security. Source & more info: [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(12-1-81) Author
2025-02-17 19:46:50
It is important to note that this problem has been noted previously; this is not the first time it has been noticed. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(5-3-64) Author
2025-02-17 19:48:25
As of January 2025, only 73 million American's received a Social Security payment. 56 million of those American's were retirees. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-3-60) Author
2025-02-17 19:53:55
The SSA OIG report (SSA OIG Report A-06-21-51022 site: oig.ssa.gov ) confirms 44,000 individuals aged 100+ were still receiving SSA payments. Example: A retiree born in 1917 died in 2005, but SSA failed to update records. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(37-5-47) Author
2025-02-17 20:10:44
The claim that the problem was solved in 2023 is not supported. If it had been solved, none of these people would be listed as alive. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(31-2-9) Author
2025-02-17 20:11:02
Notes about 1875 being a default date in COBOL are incorrect. The default date for COBOL is Monday, January 1, 1601. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(20-0-12) Author
2025-02-17 20:17:13
Whatever problem was “solved” in 2023 does not explain the 385,988,103 people/numbers on that list who are less than 120 years old….unless our population number needs updating too! US Population is ~350,000,000 [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(24-2-13) Author
2025-02-17 21:43:35
Per Grok: The total number of Social Security beneficiaries according to this list is 342,724,228. However, this number seems highly inflated when considering the U.S. population, suggesting potential errors, fraud, or misinterpretation in the data presented. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(9-1-48) Author
2025-02-18 01:20:50
The Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration had already audited these records and found almost none of the 18.9 million numberholders born in 1920 or earlier receive SSA payments. At the time of the review, approximately 44,000 receive payments. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(16-4-57) Author
2025-02-18 03:07:24
This is misleading, refer to this reply for clarity. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-39) Author
2025-02-18 16:19:12
Most of these notes are just people debating the information but not actually correcting it. Stop using community notes to have debates, take that bs to the comments and have fun. Wth is wrong with y'all? This is getting extremely ridiculous. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(21-0-0) Author
2025-02-18 20:14:31
Elon did not say those people are receiving payments. He said that having tens of millions of people marked as alive who are dead is a problem and he is correct. That means that there are tens of millions of Social Security numbers that can be used for other purposes as well. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(10-1-1) Author
2025-02-18 22:15:16
The latest IG report is from Gail S. Ennis. She resigned as SSA IG on June 29, 2024, amid misconduct allegations. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-3) Author