U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander wrote in a choice that directs Musk’s effort to eliminate SSA data it has obtained that DOGE’s concerns about inefficiencies and fraud in the spacious rights system hold no basis for access to sensitive databases.
The Maryland determine charged DOGE with participating in” a hunting expedition at SSA, in search of a scam illness, based on nothing but fear.”
Without any real proof that the needle is really in the hay, it has launched a search for the proverbial knife, according to Hollander. The defence does not appear to care about the privacy of the millions of Americans whose SSA documents were made available to the DOGE members without their consent.
Expand is prohibited from putting technology in Social Security systems, and it must remove any program that has already been done in accordance with the courtroom order.  ,
Musk has expressed concerns about information that DOGE claims to have discovered during” superficial” investigations that revealed serious social security system issues.  ,
” Why are 20 million people in the Social Security collection marked as dead when they are unquestionably dying? Why, according to the Social Security files, were lots of hundreds of millions of dollars of Small Business Administration money distributed to people under the age of 11? he questioned during a subsequent Fox Business meeting. ” These must be some pretty young eight-year-olds,” they say. You know, some very strong 150-year-olds.”
There are” a whole bunch of Social Security payments where there’s no identifying details,” according to Musk during an appearance in the Oval Office next month.
FRAUD CRACKDOWN SOCIAL SECURITY TO IMPOSE IDENTITY CHECKS AND LIMIT PHONE Service
Leases for 23 SSA agencies across the nation are being cut as part of DOGE’s effort to reduce the government.
Also, the SSA is now requiring beneficiaries to prove their identity online or in person at an SSA business rather than over the phone in an effort to break down on fraud.
