SentiLink asks and to a large extent answers the question “What’s going on with SSA’s Death Master File?” The answer is that DOGE added millions of names of people who died a long time ago. These additions had no intended effect on benefit payments. Other systems already prevented benefit payments to those who would have been 120 years of age or older. The only effects were upon those who were included by mistake. We don’t know how many were added to the Death Master File by mistake but any number is too many since the whole exercise was pointless to begin with!
An analysis by SentiLink suggests that those with the following surnames were most likely to have been added to the Death Master File even though they were alive:
- Rodriguez
- Garcia
- Perez
- Perez Rodriguez
- Harutunyan
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SSA has added information at the request of dhs that are not deceased but otherwise ineligible due to citizenship. That is likely why the names skew that way.
The database is no longer viable, its been corrupted on a large scale. The public must be told about this because other databases are being hacked by doge and they are going to be affecting payments. Why is there no congressional movement against these destructive acts? All the news and congress cares about is 1 illegal alien and not the 70 million people depending on SSA. This country is so screwed up!
It doesn’t matter if DHS revoked their visa or status. That will always be their ssn because they were previously eligible to receive it through their documented status. Hence, why SSA issued the ssn in the 1st place. You cannot put a DOD on someone’s record you know is an alive because you want to strip them of access to resources (bank accounts, benefits, etc.). That’s falsifying gov records, corrupting the death master file, and just plain inhumane.
These folks aren’t undocumented people. They were eligible to receive an ssn via a work visa, perm resident, or other permissible status. Even though DHs may revoke their status it will always be their SSN. SSA’s system interfaces with DHS’. They can see when a status has been revoked to prevent reissuance of an ssn card and other business that requires they have a certain immigration status.
The request, spelled out in a mid-April email obtained by ProPublica, comes as watchdogs and leading Democrats question whether DOGE has overstepped its bounds in seeking information about taxpayers, public employees or federal agencies that is typically highly restricted.
The review appears to be in its early stages — one document describes staffers as “beginning preplanning” — but the email directs the IRS to turn over specific documents by Thursday, April 24. It’s not clear if that happened.
The inspector general is seeking, for instance, “All requests for taxpayer or other protected information from the President or Executive Office of the President, OMB, or DOGE. Include any information on how the requestor plans to use the information requested, the IRS’s response to the request, and the legal basis for the IRS’s response,” the email says.
Danielle Citron, a leading privacy legal scholar at the University of Virginia, said the email suggests that the inspector general may be probing for violations of the Privacy Act, which requires agencies to safeguard citizens’ information and only share it across the government in specific cases. The kind of blanket data-sharing agreement the Trump administration is seeking with the IRS, she said, is “exactly what the Privacy Act is designed to avoid.”
CNN and Wired have reported that DOGE is attempting to build a master database that combines information from the IRS, DHS, Social Security Administration and other agencies. The database would be used for immigration enforcement, the outlets reported.
This is not the first time Trump administration decisions at the IRS have prompted an inspector general inquiry.
No argument against anything you said. Just staying what was being done, not that I agree or disagree with those actions. It's clear that leadership is willing to bend/twist/break any rule to carry or whatever their end goal is.
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