Comment by monkeyelite
Comment by monkeyelite 3 days ago
Is your claim that they found zero people fraudulently collecting social security through a dead relative?
Comment by monkeyelite 3 days ago
Is your claim that they found zero people fraudulently collecting social security through a dead relative?
> since you appear to be of the opinion that Musk was somehow indicating a useful fact of some kind,
No but I am glad he took action to fix it.
The Cobol 150 year thing is also incorrect and was widely criticized in tech circles: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31288/did...
no, this is an entirely bad faith representation of my words as written
he most certainly did not understand that the vast majority of what he perceived as "dead people getting benefits" were completely legitimate cases where beneficiaries were receiving those benefits and/or the data was encoded without a real birth/death date
since you appear to be of the opinion that Musk was somehow indicating a useful fact of some kind, here's mainstream media reporting of the claims made by Trump and Musk (we can assume Trump was advised by Musk) and their extreme inaccuracy:
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased...