The Donald and Elon Musk’s relationship has also reached a magnificent people finish, but regardless of whether they actually reconcile, both people owe the British citizens a succinct and credible explanation of the state of the Social Security system.
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That just makes mention of the glaring contradictions between the allegedly contradictory figures that the two have used to illustrate the alleged level of waste and scams at Social Security. Ok, there are two yet more important issues at stake.
However, in order to put this into perspective, Trump and Musk have made various statements in recent months regarding the number of recipients of Social Security benefits who appear to be years beyond the agency’s initial lifespans.
As OpenTheBooks explains on Substack:
However, President Trump rattled off volumes of people who are in the Social Security databases but older than 100 years old in his March target to a joint session of Congress. It reached the size of 20. 6 million.
Trump said,” But we’re going to find out where that money is going, and it’s not going to be pretty.
” Elon Musk and DOGE after announced they had identified and removed outdated Social Security numbers for people over the age of 120. Afterward, they increased that sum to 7 million.
The generally conflicting figures “open the door to distress and fret from Americans and condemnation from a media struggling to confirm Expand claims in real time.” At least some of this risk may be mitigated by more cautious, steady communication from across the presidency.
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In fact, in the same row, OpenTheBooks demonstrates how the Trump and Musk/DOGE numbers appear to be amenable, even though those numbers may not be as far asunder as they appear at first glance.
However, for everyone concerned, these two significant problems that this discussion raised should be at the top of everyone’s Popup list. First of all, as OpenTheBooks reveals, the Social Security Administration ( SSA ) is attempting to circumvent the federal Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ):
” On January 14, 2025, Available the Books requested from SSA for the entire 50 states to request Social Security pay payouts for the fiscal year 2024. On April 5, almost three months later, we received a reply or instead a non-response because SSA has no information that would allow us to submit a plea.
The company directed us to open-source data that is accessible on its website, which categorizes the number of SSA beneficiaries according to 62-64 and 90-99, which seems to be random age groups. There is a class for” 100 or older,” of which 73, 815 people are recipients, but the information is as specific as it can be. No data on the public breakdown of Social Security numbers by age is available. ( Author added emphasis )
Have you noticed that? The SSA does not have records for the distribution of the organization among the 50 states according to age and state. Everything is terribly wrong in SSA if it really doesn’t include such information. The firm obviously has quite records, but it is using an FOIA reporting exemption to prevent providing the requested data, which is a much more likely response.  ,
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What about the assertion that the state is unaware of the number of Social Security numbers? The golden key to unlocking another federal entitlement programs as well as Social Security benefits is probably the Social Security number. Who problems Social Security numbers, and why? The SSA.
They are unsure of how many Social Security numbers candidates have received based on age. If that is the case, Depends investigators may have been making up more of the extent of fraud in all national entitlement spending.
And that brings us to the second and most important issue, which is brought up by the glaring disparities between Trump and Musk’s says. By law, SSA may keep up-to-date records of how much money it sends each victim over the course of the duration of benefits.
The SSA provides you with an account statement that includes all of your efforts to the system and all of the balances that were given to you if you receive Social Security benefits.
How many of these records does SSA currently have up? How long has each accounts been around, what is the recipient’s current period, and how much money has each victim received in rewards overall? How many of these records have been closed as a result of suicide finds, and how much benefit did each recipient receive?
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Notice the direction this is taking. The SSA may be able to provide the necessary data in order to respond to all of these inquiries on ask if it is carrying out its duties. If it can, it shouldn’t be difficult to align Trump and Musk/DOGE images. If SSA is unable to do so, finally the issues we have are far worse than we are aware of. And not just with SSA.  ,
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