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@AlexNowrasteh
I’ve written about the large number of SSNs for people >100 that are still active. They’re illegal immigrants paying in, not fraudulent recipients taking out.
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According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security
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@AlexNowrasteh
By all means, clean up SSA and mark those people as deceased. But the cost of doing so is less revenue going into Social Security. Maybe that's fine, SS should be shut down anyway, but that is a downside.
3/30
@AlexNowrasteh
From the SSA OIG report on this.
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
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@AlexNowrasteh
And I've written a bit about it here:
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysi...onsequences-national-worker-screening-mandate
5/30
@AlexNowrasteh
Only 13 beneficiaries 112 years and older.
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@hazelmotes52
Everything moves at warp speed these days... already to the sure it's happening but actually that's good stage.
7/30
@AlexNowrasteh
You're applying the wrong model here.
8/30
@TmckBuff27
The companies feeding SS from the illegal workers should be fined and jailed.
We will see what's fact as it is dug deeper.
9/30
@AlexNowrasteh
The companies employing illegal immigrants who are paying into SS for benefits they'll never receive and subsidizing older Americans . . . should be fined and jailed? Why?
10/30
@IdeasFactory009
It means there are at least 17 million illegals in USA. Add their dependents, the real number is closer to 30 million.
11/30
@AlexNowrasteh
Think for a second. There are >100 yo SSNs that are marked as alive, a subset of those contribute tax revenue.
12/30
@GoodJoshin
So you are saying you are cool with identity theft? And how about what else you can do with a social. And could they not draw from SS?
13/30
@AlexNowrasteh
Employment related identity theft, which is where people use other people’s identities to work, is a problem created by nativists. You should need a government identity to get a job.
14/30
@DeLoachJW
I mean obviously you are trying to support the broken/corrupt system and take a little swipe at @elonmusk @DOGE but by not thinking through your response you basically said “your honor, I thought she was 15 not 12…“
Your defense is supporting the prosecution.
15/30
@AlexNowrasteh
I don't support the current system, I favor abolishing Social Security or reforming it to substantially shrink the system. My position on it is more radical than Trump's. I'm merely explaining what's going on with these numbers and other factors that can help illuminate.
16/30
@Rebma_Camper
What I find most egregious is Musk and his Musketeers are completely uninterested in asking questions to understand what they are seeing.
The Musk Audit Method: (1) I have no idea what this means (2) LET’S PUBLICLY JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS
17/30
@desertveteran
60 million of them would be a scandal too.
18/30
@KaMiller1
So you're saying that when a field labeled "Death" says, "False," this is the SSA's notation for illegal immigrants??
19/30
@markregets
Both GAO and the SSA IG have written about this issue. WaPo wrote about it in 2015.
These are counts from the SSA Numident file, not for the most part SSNs active in any way.
Those that are active are mostly unauthorized workers PAYING into the Trustfund.
20/30
@lindajacob48
Quite frankly, I trust Elon Musk and his data than you!
21/30
@MattNellans
Why are they working if they are illegal? They should be expelled from the country, right now.
22/30
@ThinkBavarian
So fraudulent payers?
23/30
@leankitjon
Great. We can close the loophole, cleanup the data, and use it as a tool for removing illegal indentured labor in the process
24/30
@Humbum337
Huge difference.
25/30
@llunved
That is more likely than Cobol.
26/30
@dahaj1897
Just the sum of counts for under 100 here is ~377M. That's still ~40M more than the US population.
27/30
@Scienkoptic
I’ve been saying this for years
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I hired a Honduran in 2005. He provided me with a Photocopy of a Social Security card that had been copied so many times it looked like a mimeograph. After doing my due diligence, I cut him a check and told him not to come back without the original. I never saw him again.
It was at that moment I knew that 1000s of people were paying to a SSN that no one was claiming. The government had no incentive to fix this. Employing illegal aliens is exploitation.
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@m0neyisfake
If that’s true can we trust any of the official numbers?
29/30
@RickSchoen35735
Hey Jessica, why do you hate America so much!
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@spongeworthy2
Committing those crimes illegal immigrants rarely commit.
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