Shapiro: We’re Not Paying Dead People Social Security

“President Trump got into a litany of talk about waste and fraud in Social Security. Now at this point, I’ll point out it was it was very funny. I do want to point out that we are not actually paying 360 year-olds their Social Security benefits.

“That’s not actually what’s going on. Basically, we have an incredibly stupid system for processing Social Security payments in which all the listings are really, really old, and there’s, like, a default date that you list somebody’s age at if you don’t actually know their age that goes back to 1875 or something.

“There’s actually been an audit of Social Security. There are people who are fraudulently obtaining Social Security, but it is not tens of millions of people who are obtaining fraudulent Social Security.

“It was, however, a reminder that that America’s government is filled with with kind of inanities and stupidity.” – Ben Shapiro, on today’s podcast.