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The Associated Press reports:
Over the past few days, President Donald Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said on social media and in press briefings that people who are 100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits — a “HUGE problem,” Musk wrote. Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago.
Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased.
This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits. The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.
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Trump: We have millions and millions of people over 100 years old. Everybody knows that’s not so. We have a very corrupt country, a very corrupt country. The good thing about Social Security and what I read is if you take all of those numbers off because they’re obviously… pic.twitter.com/OwwxJ6difQ
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 18, 2025
“Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,”
There are more illegal individuals listed with Social Security numbers than there are American citizens.
Not only mismanagement but a significant level of fraud, with illegal immigrants… pic.twitter.com/mDmYVj0DlQ
— Kash Patel (Parody) (@KashPetalPdy) February 19, 2025