From the Washington Post:
Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Washington Post. The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child, the records show. Some immigrants have shown up with driver’s licenses and work permits to prove their legitimacy, the records show. Others have arrived bearing letters of notification that they received from their states declaring them dead. …
Records obtained by The Post show the immigrants listed as dead include a 13-year-old, a 14-year-old, two 16-year-olds and four 17-year-olds, as well as people in their 70s and one 83-year-old. Agency staff later checked some of the youngest individuals against data the agency uses to research criminal history and could find no evidence of crimes or law enforcement interactions, The Post reported. The records show 6,161 people were added to the file in early April at the request of DHS, along with an additional 102 a few days later. As of Friday, Social Security staff had restored 31 of these people to the rolls, declaring them living again, the records show. ..
I wonder if DOGE or the White House knew about these reinstatements.
15 comments:
Expecting a lot of commenters saying, "see, immigrants are getting benefits." Yes, legal residents (asylum, immigrants, etc.), are technically eligible for some forms of benefits. They are extremely small in number, but they do exist. If you disagree with that, take it up with Congress.
DOGE’s idea of efficiency, create an unnecessary work load.
Memories of being at the DDS back in the early 80s when we were ordered to purge people from the rolls...and multiple people kicked off the rolls wound up committing suicide...
Great, more migrants collecting as my benefits are scheduled for a 21% cut in a few years! I guess the fact that my contributions started at age 16 (now 60 and disabled) mean nothing as I could have just sneaked over the border!
Sadly, that isn't uncommon and I worry terribly with the current administration not thinking about those who need the meager income so badly that it gives them that little will they have to live. It's so sad how many people die waiting for their benefits, let alone to have them erroneously cut off. That can be a breaking point for some...
These idiots need to allow Greg Pearre to return. This is a doggone abomination. The inmates/prisoners are really running the asylum/prison. God, please stop this unnecessary carnage by the so-called brainiacs. Wow just Wow!
First, your benefits will not be cut by 21% or any other amount. And, if you had sneaked across the border, and were not here legally, then you would receive nothing at all. Those "migrants" are all here legally and are eligible for benefits for that reason. In fact, many who are not here legally pay into Social Security and never receive a dime.
Anonymous at 2:24, if you became disabled at 60 after working since you were 16, then you should understand that you benefitted from special provisions allowing you to collect benefits before you reached full retirement age. Why would you, therefore, begrudge others, immigrants or not, who legitimately benefit of provisions Congress has passed. Are you just old and angry and selfish?
I hope you get an overpayment and get your check garnished for debt
If illegal why doesn't ICE show up to the office and arrest and deport?
Because ICE = Incompetent Cops from Everywhere?
The majority are fine with removing illegal aliens. Make it impossible for them to work so they self-deport.
@2:24pm
Your comment is exceptionally uninformed. If you learned the facts, you wouldn’t so easily fall for xenophobic false narratives.
That might sound harsh. But the hatred spurred by the misinformation breaks my heart and is ruining any hope we have of being a functioning society
And the Doge clown-car careens on!
Yes, Thank God!
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