Elon Musk shared on X that an investigation into the Social Security Administration’s database found more than 12 million people over the age of 120 are eligible benefits recipients.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!” Musk wrote on X, sharing an image of the database.
One individual was listed as being between the ages of 360 and 369. More than 1,000 people were listed as being over the age of 220.
Millions of others were listed as being older than 120. Another 3.6 million people were between the ages of 110 and 119.
An X user was quick to point out that the U.S. population is only 334.9 million, although the database suggested there were more than 390 million people in the U.S. collecting social security. Musk responded that there are “FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.”
“This might be the biggest fraud in history,” he noted.
The congressional Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) confirmed during its first hearing that billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on “improper payments and fraud.”
“There are things this Committee can do to help the investigators fighting the war on fraud,” Dawn Royal, a certified welfare investigator and the Director of United Council on Welfare Fraud said during the hearing. “Number one, eliminate self-attestation in the application process for all programs. Number two, funding for technology that includes identity verification tools that will help prevent fraud. The current pay and chase model is not sustainable. Number three, immediately implement the National Accuracy Clearinghouse, the NAC will provide data to states to prevent duplicate participation in all of the social welfare programs. And four, allocate direct funding with mandates restricting the use of the funding to the prevention, detection, and prosecution of fraud.ā
