{"id":2403377,"date":"2025-02-17T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-fraud-nearly-1-5-million-americans-listed-as-over-150-years-old-1041-over-220-years-old\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:58:21","slug":"social-security-fraud-nearly-1-5-million-americans-listed-as-over-150-years-old-1041-over-220-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-fraud-nearly-1-5-million-americans-listed-as-over-150-years-old-1041-over-220-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Fraud: Nearly 1.5 Million Americans Listed as Over 150 Years Old, 1,041 Over 220 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-security-fraud-nearly-1-5-million-americans-listed-as-over-150-years-old-1041-over-220-years-old%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon \u200cMusk has \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-rules-phantom-left-wing-group-filed-false-financial-disclosures-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"FEC rules &#039;phantom&#039; left-wing group filed false financial disclosures - Washington Examiner\">revealed significant discrepancies<\/a> \u2063in the social \u2064Security \u200dGovernance&#8217;s database, which may represent \u200ca massive case of\u2062 waste, fraud, or systemic failure. He\u2063 noted that there are potentially hundreds of\u2064 thousands, if not millions, of individuals listed as \u2064alive \u2064in\u200d the \u200ddatabase who might\u2063 actually be deceased. Specifically, the database reportedly includes over 1.3 million\u200d records of people \u200caged 150 to\u200c 159,nearly \u2062122,000 aged 160 to 169,and\u2063 even individuals aged \u2064240\u2063 to 249 and 360 to 369. Musk humorously \u200dsuggested this might \u2062indicate the existence of vampires receiving Social Security\u200d benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The findings\u200d raise\u200d serious questions about the \u2062accuracy of Social Security records, as\u200c Musk highlights that there are far more &#8216;eligible&#8217; social \u2064security numbers than there are citizens in the\u2062 U.S.\u200d He warns that this\u200c could reflect one of\u2063 the \u200dworst\u200d frauds in history, indicating a need for significant reform \u2064and oversight in \u200cfederal bureaucracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and his crack team at the Department of Government Efficiency have been scouring federal data for signs of waste, fraud, and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>They may have found something massive at the Social Security Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Musk d via X on Sunday that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans listed as alive in the Social Security databases who have probably been dead for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-senator-flips-elon-musks-doge-arrives-irs-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">database<\/a> included over 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">3 million people<\/a> between the ages of 150 and 159, nearly 122,000 between the ages of 160 and 169, and over 6,000 between the ages of 170 and 179.<\/p>\n<p>That does not include a few thousand more between 180 and 229 years old, meaning they were born well before the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!&rdquo; Musk told the public while sharing a screenshot of the data.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security &#129315;&#129315; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltb06VX98Z\">pic.twitter.com\/ltb06VX98Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1891350795452654076?\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  He may not be far off.<\/p>\n<p>There was one person listed on the Social Security rolls between 240 and 249 years old, and another between 360 and 369 years old.<\/p>\n<p>That means there is supposedly one American alive who saw the earliest days of the republic, and another who started his life squarely during the colonial era.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the oldest person to ever live in modern history was Jeanne Calment, who lived just over 122 years, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/78965-oldest-people-ever-lived-top-ten-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinness Book of World Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in 1875 and died in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>There are a handful of others who lived to such a ripe old age.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the data uncovered by Musk, their longevity is not all that impressive, and the Guinness Book of World Records needs a serious update.<\/p>\n<p>The records from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/instead-cutting-social-security-payments-trump-cut-taxes-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security<\/a> indicated that there are actually more than 7.4 million Americans alive today between the ages of 130 and 149.<\/p>\n<p>Musk did not reveal whether those supposed senior citizens are still receiving payouts, but he is not optimistic about what this finding says about the soundness of our bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are FAR more &lsquo;eligible&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-investigating-spacexs-hiring-practices-after-non-u-s-citizen-alleges-discrimination\/\" title=\"DOJ Investigating SpaceX\u2019s Hiring Practices After Non-U.S. Citizen Alleges Discrimination\">social security<\/a> numbers<\/a> than there are citizens in the USA,&rdquo; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1891357918605332965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>. &ldquo;This might be the biggest fraud in history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At best, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/poll-spike-number-americans-concerned-future-medicare-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security<\/a> Administration has been asleep at the wheel, failing to conduct basic maintenance on its records.<\/p>\n<p>At worst, the taxpayer is currently shelling out millions of payments to people claiming the identities of long-dead Americans, indeed reflecting one of the worst frauds ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the latest revelation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-musk-allege-us-government-paid-mainstream-media-outlet-millions-large-scale-social-deception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> shows massive government incompetence and explains exactly why reforming and downsizing the federal beast is a serious necessity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; 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They may have uncovered a significant issue at the Social Security Administration. Musk stated on X that there are potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans recorded as alive in Social Security databases who are likely deceased. The database reportedly includes over 1.3 million individuals aged 150 to 159, nearly 122,000 aged 160 to 169, and more than 6,000 aged 170 to 179. This does not account for several thousand others between the ages of 180 and 229 years old\u2014individuals born long before the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Musk shared a screenshot showing these figures while commenting on how many people in each age group have their death status marked as FALSE in the database. He humorously suggested that perhaps &#8220;Twilight&#8221; is real and there are numerous vampires collecting Social Security benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The findings also included one person listed as being between 240 and 249 years old and another between ages 360 and 369\u2014implying one American witnessed the early days of the republic while another was born during colonial times. For context, Jeanne Calment holds the record for being the oldest verified person in modern history at just over 122 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Musk&#8217;s findings from Social Security records, there are actually more than seven million Americans purportedly alive today who fall within ages ranging from130 to149. While he did not clarify whether these alleged seniors still receive benefits, he expressed concern about what this indicates regarding bureaucratic efficiency: \u201cThere are FAR more \u2018eligible\u2019 social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>This situation raises serious questions about either negligence or potential fraud within government systems\u2014suggesting taxpayers might be funding payments to individuals using identities of those long deceased\u2014which could represent one of history&#8217;s largest frauds. Ultimately, Musk\u2019s revelations highlight significant governmental incompetence underscoring an urgent need for reforming federal operations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2403378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-5.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50508,50507,6909,42018,33104],"class_list":["post-2403377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-aging-population","tag-data-anomaly","tag-fraud","tag-senior-citizens","tag-social-security"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403381,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403377\/revisions\/2403381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}