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- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
Archived copies of the article:
Easy to say people are dead and collecting benefits when you are the one that marks them as dead when you know they’re still alive and will continue to collect.
I don’t believe for a second that people at DOGE didn’t do this on purpose a few times to have examples to point to.
The fact that there was a significantly large line and the agents overwhelmed tells you all you need to know about that.