Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down

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3 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Then surely you won't mind if we take a look then, if there's nothing to hide. 

The problem isn't about taking a look at it. It's about making false claims about what they found. Even the acting director of social security who was appointed by Trump, wouldn't back up their claims about millions of centenarians receiving social security.

[jvs]

Just now, Dan O said:

Really, you expect people to believe this?

MM's do.

[stevenl]

7 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Then surely you won't mind if we take a look then, if there's nothing to hide. 

Nobody minds taking a look and getting rid of fraud. If you don't understand the issue with the present operation there's no hope for you. You clearly have a extremely limited pov.

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2 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Hahahaha.  Can you post your source for this disinformation? 

His source is himself. He has specifically claimed that he favors what posters claim rather than links to facts.

[CallumWK]

1 hour ago, LiamB80 said:

Actually that's incorrect. There's people over 140yo collecting SS,

 

Another hoax by President Musk, which has been widely debunked already, but the MAGA boys still spred the false news.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/trump-musk-exaggerate-scale-of-improper-social-security-payments-to-the-dead/

 

Trump, Musk Exaggerate Scale of Improper Social Security Payments to the Dead

 

As of September 2015, the Social Security database automatically designates individuals aged 115 and older as deceased. Additionally, a pilot program launched by the Treasury Department in 2023 has recovered $31 million in improper federal payments to deceased individuals, both from Social Security and from other government agencies. The program projects to recoup $215 million by December 2026. 

[LiamB80]

2 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Nobody minds, if you don't understand the issue with the present operation there's no hope for you. You clearly have an extremely limited pov.

Trump won the election with an overwhelming majority landslide victory. The way he chooses to look at possible fraud in the Social Security administration is up to him, the American people overwhelmingly support him regardless of what is reflected on this site of mostly non Americans spouting off due to their hatred of Elon Musk (great American btw) and President Trump.

[Hawaiian]

1 hour ago, LiamB80 said:

Actually that's incorrect. There's people over 140yo collecting SS, illegal aliens collecting social security disability, also legit social security numbers used by companies that employ illegal aliens to try and fool E-verify. A top to bottom audit is needed. It's pretty simple, you either support DOGE or you support corruption. 

It is pretty simple, either agree with my flawed logic or you don't.

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, hotsun said:

That was some bit of time before the election when news started to get out of how big a problem it got

It was the same bit before elections as Trump and the maga minions were releasing false informortion to stir up sentiment for themselves with fake claims. Dude you want people to take you serious then do some research and stop posting misleading comments that are not based in fact.

[LiamB80]

1 minute ago, Hawaiian said:

It is pretty simple, either agree with my flawed logic or you don't.

So you obviously support corruption then. There's no in between. 

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1 minute ago, LiamB80 said:

Trump won the election with an overwhelming majority landslide victory. The way he chooses to look at possible fraud in the Social Security administration is up to him, the American people overwhelmingly support him regardless of what is reflected on this site of mostly non Americans spouting off due to their hatred of Elon Musk (great American btw) and President Trump.

 Trump didn't even get a majority of the popular vote. Pretty ridiculous to claim that an overwhelming majority of the American people support him when he didn'teven get a majority of the popular vote. That's quite a bubble you live in.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

2 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Trump won the election with an overwhelming majority landslide victory. The way he chooses to look at possible fraud in the Social Security administration is up to him, the American people overwhelmingly support him regardless of what is reflected on this site of mostly non Americans spouting off due to their hatred of Elon Musk (great American btw) and President Trump.

 

Trump failed to get 50% of the votes cast. He squeaked by in terms of the popular vote. It was by no means a landslide.

 

 

[frank83628]

19 minutes ago, jvs said:

Still going on about dead people collecting SS even after people tried to explain it on here and after it has been debunked by many people.

That my friends,is typically MAGA!

 

 

It hasn't been debunked, there are names of dead people that have not been removed. Just the same as there are dead people on the voter rolls. To what extent is whatbis being looked into

[frank83628]

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

 Trump didn't even get a majority of the popular vote. Pretty ridiculous to claim that an overwhelming majority of the American people support him when he didn'teven get a majority of the popular vote. That's quite a bubble you live in.

He won the popular vote of those that voted, don't like it, then more Democrats should have turned out to vote.... did you vote.... can you vote?

[LiamB80]

5 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

 

Trump failed to get 50% of the votes cast. He squeaked by in terms of the popular vote. It was by no means a landslide.

 

 

His victory was YUGE , get over it.

[bamnutsak]

Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security

 

Claims of massive problems by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with the agency’s audits and reports.

 

Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration, claiming it is plagued by “immense waste” and promising audits to root out “the extreme levels of fraud.” President Donald Trump said during his joint address to Congress earlier this month that Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service was already “identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud” at the agency.

But some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate. Musk’s assertion that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped down by the agency’s acting head, who had been promoted because of his willingness to cooperate with DOGE. “These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,” Social Security acting commissioner Lee Dudek said.

 

https://archive.ph/EbEZM

[frank83628]

7 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

 

Trump failed to get 50% of the votes cast. He squeaked by in terms of the popular vote. It was by no means a landslide.

 

 

They won everything, so it was a landslide in that respect, you can move the goalposts which ever why you want regarding definitions & percentages, Doesn't change the facts

[LiamB80]

6 minutes ago, placeholder said:

 Trump didn't even get a majority of the popular vote. Pretty ridiculous to claim that an overwhelming majority of the American people support him when he didn'teven get a majority of the popular vote. That's quite a bubble you live in.

You should stick to posting articles that you didn't write because when you do talk you're incorrect. Trump won the popular vote and the electoral vote which is all that matters anyway. You just showed yourself up @Placeholder. You didn't deny what I said earlier about that yahoo article and what that leads me to believe about who you are. Seems I was right on that too. 

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4 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

He won the popular vote of those that voted, don't like it, then more Democrats should have turned out to vote.... did you vote.... can you vote?

Why are you defending a lie? Or rather given the source, why are you defending a falsehood based on ignorance? Once again here's what was written:

 

"Trump won the election with an overwhelming majority landslide victory. The way he chooses to look at possible fraud in the Social Security administration is up to him, the American people overwhelmingly support him regardless of what is reflected on this site of mostly non Americans spouting off due to their hatred of Elon Musk (great American btw) and President Trump."

[jas007]

20 minutes ago, jvs said:

It has been cleared up already,a few times over.

It was Elon who thought he found something massive and he jumped on it before verifying it.

Proved he was wrong.

Who proved he was wrong?  All I see is a bunch of people claiming he was.  Anyway, is it not possible that there's a problem there, and they're just trying to verify the order of magnitude?  Is it one person, is it 100,000 people, is it millions of people?  They'll figure it out.  No one wants to stop benefits to people who deserve them.  The SSA even has an expedited process for correcting any mistakes.  That may now take individual verification of identity, either in person or otherwise, but the process is there.  You can bet that people receiving  money they shouldn't be receiving will have a hard time proving that they do.  Most probably won't even try.  They'll just yell and scream a lot that Elon is a fascist.  

[frank83628]

Just now, placeholder said:

Why are you defending a lie? Or rather given the source, why are you defending a falsehood based on ignorance? Once again here's what was written:

 

"Trump won the election with an overwhelming majority landslide victory. The way he chooses to look at possible fraud in the Social Security administration is up to him, the American people overwhelmingly support him regardless of what is reflected on this site of mostly non Americans spouting off due to their hatred of Elon Musk (great American btw) and President Trump."

Can you & did you vote?

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2 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

You should stick to posting articles that you didn't write because when you do talk you're incorrect. Trump won the popular vote and the electoral vote which is all that matters anyway. You just showed yourself up @Placeholder. You didn't deny what I said earlier about that yahoo article and what that leads me to believe about who you are. Seems I was right on that too. 

You claimed he won an  overwhelming majority victory and that the American people overwhelmingly support him.

Trump got the most popular votes but not a majority. How do you bounce from that to the claim that the overwhelming majority of the American people support him?

[LiamB80]

Just now, placeholder said:

You claimed he won an  overwhelming majority victory and that the American people overwhelmingly support him.

Trump got the most popular votes but not a majority. How do you bounce from that to the claim that the overwhelming majority of the American people support him?

You either get the popular vote or you don't. Theres no in between. He got it. You've just showed yourself ignorance of the American voting system and proven that you not from the USA. Go quote another article because you have nothing original.

[jas007]

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

You claimed he won an  overwhelming majority victory and that the American people overwhelmingly support him.

Trump got the most popular votes but not a majority. How do you bounce from that to the claim that the overwhelming majority of the American people support him?

Possibly because the election is now OVEt and because a majority of Americans now support what Trump is doing?  

[frank83628]

5 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security

 

Claims of massive problems by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with the agency’s audits and reports.

 

Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration, claiming it is plagued by “immense waste” and promising audits to root out “the extreme levels of fraud.” President Donald Trump said during his joint address to Congress earlier this month that Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service was already “identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud” at the agency.

But some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate. Musk’s assertion that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security benefits was so off-base that it had to be tamped down by the agency’s acting head, who had been promoted because of his willingness to cooperate with DOGE. “These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,” Social Security acting commissioner Lee Dudek said.

 

https://archive.ph/EbEZM

 1% of 1.6 trillion is still a lot of money being wasted.... that is exactly what Musk is doing. Do you think it should just be forgotten, never mind, it's pocket change.

Here is what you cropped out of that article.

 

Musk’s intense focus on Social Security appears central to his promise to slash $2 trillion from the federal budget. The agency distributes $1.6 trillion in benefit payments each year, making up about 20 percent of all federal spending.

Its sprawling size would appear to offer plenty of opportunities to root out waste and fraud for those who think such problems run rampant in government.

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But less than 1 percent of Social Security’s payments in recent years were determined to be improper — often the result of an accidental oversight or change in benefit status, according to a report last year by the agency’s inspector general. That works out to about $9 billion a year, and more than two-thirds of the mistaken payments were eventually clawed back. Another agency audit, which looked only at payments to retired workers, survivors and people with disabilities, found fraud was listed as the cause behind just 3 percent of improper benefit payments

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1 minute ago, LiamB80 said:

You either get the popular vote or you don't. Theres no in between. He got it. You've just showed yourself ignorance of the American voting system and proven that you not from the USA. Go quote another article because you have nothing original.

You claimed he got an overwhelming majority. Do you understand what majority means? Maybe you're not a native speaker of English? In Trump's case he didn't get a majority. He got what's called tplurality. How does this translate to him having the overwhelming support of the American people?

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3 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Possibly because the election is now OVEt and because a majority of Americans now support what Trump is doing?  

It's funny. Right wingers generally claim that they only polls that count are the elections. If it's polls you're referring to, they hardly show overwhelming support for Trump.

[frank83628]

9 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Who proved he was wrong?  All I see is a bunch of people claiming he was.  Anyway, is it not possible that there's a problem there, and they're just trying to verify the order of magnitude?  Is it one person, is it 100,000 people, is it millions of people?  They'll figure it out.  No one wants to stop benefits to people who deserve them.  The SSA even has an expedited process for correcting any mistakes.  That may now take individual verification of identity, either in person or otherwise, but the process is there.  You can bet that people receiving  money they shouldn't be receiving will have a hard time proving that they do.  Most probably won't even try.  They'll just yell and scream a lot that Elon is a fascist.  

These guys read MSM fearmongering articles that deliberately misinform their readers,

Musk says he's going to end fraud, corruption & waste in SS,  MSM says Musk is going to end SS totally... Granny will die!

[frank83628]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's funny. Right wingers generally claim that they only polls that count are the elections. If it's polls you're referring to, they hardly show overwhelming support for Trump.

Same polls that showed Harris winning?

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1 minute ago, frank83628 said:

These guys read MSM fearmongering articles that deliberately misinform their readers,

Musk says he's going to end fraud, corruption & waste in SS,  MSM says Musk is going to end SS totally... Granny will die!

Thanks for the obvious attempt at deflection. The fact is Musk made massively wrong and dishonest claims about social security fraud. Not only that, Doge has actually slashed 20% of the fraud inspectors working for social security.

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3 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Same polls that showed Harris winning?

Thanks for illustrating my point. The claim was made that Trump has overwhelming majority support of the American people. I pointed out at the actual election poll show nothing of the sort. Then a Trump supporter claimed he could have that overwhelming majority support anyway. What was the basis of that claim? As I pointed out, right-wingers distrust polls except the only one that counts: The actual election.