Just recently DOGE and Donny have been pushing the idea to his idiot supporters about all the fraud within the Social Security system…..at one point I believe someone said there could be millions of fraudsters out there.
Damn! That is a bunch!
But unfortunately it is just another Donny tactic….make shit up.
The rest of the story…..
It’s long been clear that Social Security fraud is minuscule, with an inspector general report published last year estimating that just 0.84% of Social Security benefits paid out between 2015 and 2022 were dispensed improperly—and even those improper payments were not necessarily fraudulent.
The new reporting out Thursday bolstered warnings that the Trump administration’s hunt for fraud is a mere pretext for slashing Social Security benefits and weakening the program.
“Turns out there ISN’T rampant Social Security fraud, but Elon’s witch hunt, driven by his insane conspiracy theories, IS keeping seniors from getting their benefits as quickly as they should be,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote on social media. “THIS is Republican governing: hunting for nonexistent fraud while breaking Social Security.
Frank Bisignano, the newly confirmed SSA administrator, has close ties to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and has defended the president’s false claim that tens of millions of “dead” people are receiving Social Security benefits.
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An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%.
The documents, first reported Thursday by Nextgov/FCW, further undercut President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s narrative that Social Security is brimming with fraud. Musk falsely claimed in March that “40% of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent.”
The anti-fraud checks for Social Security have been applied only to benefit claims made over the phone. According to the internal document, “No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases.” Earlier this year, amid widespread outrage, the Social Security Administration (SSA) walked back a proposal to scrap many of its phone-based benefit claim services.
(commondreams.org)
Please stop listening to the lies and bullshit coming from the mouths of the idiots in power….all this crap is so they can find an excuse to cut SS benefits to you….and you eat the manure up….can’t fix stupid!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I wish stupid could be cured. The U.S. really could be leaders of the free world in a world free of lies where the young generations are not sacrificed on the altar of war.
Well said…..my favorite quote is “stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance’ and it becomes more so with each generation. chuq
Another lie they’re fond of pushing is that Social Security is somehow contributing to the national debt. It doesn’t. It is entirely separate from the federal budget. It is entirely funded by the FICA payroll tax. Any claim that it contributes to the national debt or that benefits paid out come from the federal budget is a flat out lie.
They also are fond of claiming that there is no money in the SS trust fund. That’s partly true because SS doesn’t just shovel dollars into a vault and lock the door. That money is invested in US treasury bonds. One could argue that without the social security system, the US’s budget would be in even worse shape because it’s the SS trust fund that holds a great deal of the US’s debt.
Excellent point and a change in the FICA collections would go a long way of shutting these lies down. chuq
Same deal here with Benefit Fraud. The government is pushing through a law that allows them forced access to the bank accounts of anyone receiving benfits. This despite the fact that their own investigation showed that only 0.01% of recipient claims were fraudulent. They would sooner scrape a few pounds back from disbaled people, rather than tax billionaires and corporations effectively.
Best wishes, Pete.
Seems we have much in common. chuq
Well, I will take your advice and stop listening to the lies… but please tell me what can I do about it all? If they are going to cut social security they are going to cut it and none of us are going to be able to do shit about it. And when that Big Beautiful Bill gets passed and Donny gets permission to cancel elections and to ignore supreme court orders and federal judge orders and all the rest of the stuff that has been crammed into the “Give the president more power” section of the Big Beautiful Bill, he will be able to do whatever he pleases and there will be no more guardrails to stop him — and then there we will be….up shit creek without a paddle.
John we are already up the creek….all I can say is stop voting the 2 party system….it is giving us this crap and has been for decades….neither party has our best interests at heart. chuq
I no longer read anything pertaining to Trump and his merry men, unless I see the word “Trump lost…”
I am apolitical historian so it always interests me ev3en though he is a complete dolt. chuq