The Social Security Administration considered suspending its telephone services amid tension from Elon Musk’d Department of Government Performance, as DOGE thinks this would have cut down on fraud, misuse and abuse but finally backtracked from the selection gauging the huge backlash waiting for it. The phone company is for filing retirement and disability says. If this stands suspended, elderly and disabled people would have to file their claims on the Internet or have to attend the field offices to practice their promises.
The company’s toll-free variety is what many older clients have been relying on for years as they didn’t access the Internet
The Washington Post reported about the proposed shift in the decades-old center, after which the plan was dropped. But the Social Security Administration said they will come back with a small change ward of March that didn’t enable customers to change a direct payment routing number or other bank information by phone.
Elon Musk and Social Security string
After Elon Musk’s DOGE shut down several Social Security practices in its attempt to keep federal funds, panic spread that Elon Musk was after the Social Security pay. In a recent interview with Fox, Elon Musk called Social Security ‘ entitlement payment ‘ though Republicans claimed that his target is to weed out the fraud in SS payments– and a lot of which is routed through telephone calls. ” Most of the federal spending is entitlements”, Musk told the Fox Business Network. ” That’s the big one to eliminate”.
” 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the Social Security database”, Musk said.
President Donald Trump assured that he won’t touch Social Security and Medicare but in the existing system, dead people are receiving money.
SSA commissioner said the agency’s data have older people with no date of death but that does not mean they are receiving benefits.
Coming to numbers, Social Security handles about 9.5 million claims a year for retirement, survivor and disability benefits, and Supplemental Security Income, paying$ 1.5 trillion in benefits last year. Of Americans aged 65 and over, 86 per cent receive Social Security payments and phone claims make up about 40 per cent of claims.
