Tens of millions of 'dead people' collecting Social Security...either the result of not understanding the data or blatant propaganda.
of the 18.9 million Social Security number holders born in 1920 or earlier were receiving SSA payments, the 2023 report said, noting there were about 44,000 who were still receiving payments at the time of the audit.
As of September 2015, the SSA began to automate terminating benefits once people reached age 115
Trump
“If you take all of those millions of people off Social Security, all of a sudden we have a very powerful Social Security with people that are 80 and 70 and 90, but not 200 years old,”
Yeah...if those 'millions' were receiving SS benefits...except they aren't.
Are there errors in SS? Yes
Are the numbers bad? No, but they could be better.
A July 2024 report from Social Security’s inspector general states that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or less than 1% — in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.
Before Trump even took office and DOGE was a thing
In addition, in early January, the U.S. Treasury clawed back more than $31 million in a variety of federal payments— not just Social Security payments— that improperly went to dead people,