DOGE is saying that they’ve corrected almost all of the Numident records kept by Social Security to show that anyone 120 years of age or older is dead. Of course, this is a complete waste of time. Numident isn’t used to pay benefits. There are separate databases for that and they don’t include anyone older than 115 but, hey, if it impresses the rubes who voted for Trump it’s all for a good cause. Of course, despite this, those rubes will still believe that 150 year olds are being paid because the rubes are credulous fools.
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Major mySSA failure right now. FO’s and TSC’s are flooded with calls about beneficiary MYSSA accounts showing no benefits are being paid. Systems ticket is now open. What in the world????? And it’s almost time for our new daily 15-30 minute nationwide systems outage. DOGE is breaking everything!!!!
DOGE says many things but I would need confirmation from Big Balls.
April Fool
DOGE got their first scalp and it will be proudly displayed for the media to gawk at.
DOGE could possibly be doing some good someplace but when this story was shaped as millions of dead people receiving benefits who were obviously deceased and DOGE did nothing to correct that impression, they lost all credibility.
Leland, is that you? Wasn’t there an outage yesterday on the SSA website? I’m not the fool that might be ending up in jail. We will see who gets the last laugh since the SSA recipients are not laughing but rather mobilizing.
Well, those 120+ year-olds will now get posted to the DMF which is used by other Fed agencies, banks, and credit agencies to prevent erroneous/fraudulent payments and benefits so there is that.
Talk about inefficiency and waste. How many man-hours were spent updating the numident for absolutely no good reason?
And step 10 GS-15s doing this. That work should have been done by a GS-12 or 13. We have much more meaningful work being done that will actually save money but that won’t get the fanfare of this overpaid busywork. The people doing the real work will probably all get canned this week or next so that cost saving code will never be finished. Gotta love all this “efficiency”!
Its a total joke. Update a database thats not used for payment while the agency is being destroyed internally. Offices have no paper and computer systems down daily. Entire offices of employees reassigned to nowhere, to do duties they need 10 months of training to do. And this is efficiency! The people will shortly feel what this efficiency has done to them.
The Social Security Administration said Tuesday that it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the “my Social Security” portal where recipients access their benefits.
Notably, individuals who receive Supplemental Security Income, including disabled seniors and low-income adults and children, have reported receiving a notice that said they were “not receiving benefits.” The agency said that notice was a mistake.
Roughly 7.4 million seniors, adults and children receive SSI benefits, according to an internal 2023 report. It is unclear how many people received the mistaken message on their portal.
In a statement, the agency acknowledged “a couple of recent incidents” that affected Social Security and said they are under investigation. The agency said that during the brief disruptions, which averaged about 20 minutes each, the Social Security Administration’s website remained operational, though some people may have had an issue signing in to their “my Social Security” account.
The website has crashed several times over the past few weeks. They come as the Social Security Administration, under the leadership of acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, conducts a major overhaul of operations in an effort to clamp down on alleged fraud, which President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency claim is widespread.
The changes include mass employee layoffs and staff reductions, new limits on recipients’ phone line access and the closure of offices around the country. They have sparked furor among lawmakers, advocacy groups and program recipients, who say the Trump administration is placing unnecessary barriers in front of an already vulnerable population.
Not an April Fools joke!
In the statement, the agency apparently forgot to mention that the DOGE folks have been making changes to the authentication protocols in mySSA. Perhaps they are not sufficiently testing those changes? Or perhaps the folks that know how to test are gone? Or perhaps they are moving fast and breaking things?
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