From
CNN Politics:
Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its databases to check whether beneficiaries are alive or dead. It has already added dates of death to millions of people’s records, focusing on those who are implausibly old.
The problem: Some people who have recently been declared dead are actually alive, forcing them to go to Social Security offices to be “resurrected” and stop the financial havoc that such a mistake can have on their lives. …
Some managers received an email to remind their staff that “death correction cases” should be addressed that same day and don’t need to have appointments, unlike most people who need help. The agency also sent an email about dates of death being posted to 3.5 million records, with guidance on whom to report erroneous death listings. …
Also showing up at Social Security offices are immigrants who are correcting their records after having been declared dead by the Department of Homeland Security, several employees told CNN. DHS requested that Social Security enter more than 6,000 names of immigrants into its database used to track dead people in hopes that they’ll leave the US, CNN reported last month. ....
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This is all on Dudek
It's also illegal.
Such a waste of money as it was decided multiple times over the years.
Musk lied about millions of impossibly old people supposedly getting SSA benefits, and Trump echoed the lies in a speech. Neither has repeated the lie recently, showing they know it has been effectively debunked.
What office would be in charge of investigating and prosecuting the death index falsifiers? Have they done anything?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
DOGE management thinks SSA employees need to work 10% harder despite increased workloads and thousands of employees leaving the agency.
The backlog has grown to 575,000 pending retirement claims, with more than 140,000 of those pending for more than 60 days.
“I am calling for a sprint – a focused, concerted effort in all offices beginning today and lasting through the end of May – to address this growing backlog of pending retirement and survivor claims in our field offices and Workload Support Units,” Stephen Evangelista, deputy commissioner for operations, wrote in the email.
“I am calling for all offices to do their very best to increase their [Retirement, Survivors, Health Insurance] clearances by at least 10 percent daily through the end of May,” Evangelista wrote.
The call for Social Security’s more than 50,000 employees to work harder comes just weeks after the agency trumpeted its efforts to shed staff as part of President Donald Trump’s mission to make the government more efficient. Social Security proudly announced on April 29, Trump’s 100th day in office, that it had gotten rid of 350 employees through deferred resignations and 3,000 employees through voluntary separations.
“As SSA reshapes its organization to focus on direct customer service to the public, all non-essential staff received the option of deferred resignation,” the agency said in a press release.
In normal times, the Department of Justice. We'll have to rely on the Attorneys General in the remaining Sane States to investigate and file lawsuits.
I just shake my head. This is coming from a man (Evangelista) that, if he wasn't working for SSA, probably isn't even qualified to package french fries in Happy Meals at McDonalds.
Clearly you have never worked directly with Evangelista. He’s one of the best executives I’ve ever worked with. Of course, I’ve never worked with him when he’s had a gun to his head being told to follow orders…which is the position most executives have to operate with right now.
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