USA "Social Security" system has some fraud. Watch Bernie Sanders pretend he doesn't know
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In his speech last night, President Trump mentioned that USA "Social Security" benefits database, has open records for millions of people over age 130. 1 even at age 360.
Sen. Bernie Sanders responds brilliantly
"Nobody - NOBODY! - who is 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks."
Yes, Bernie.
You nailed it
Their checks probably go to younger people.
Living people, maybe?
video - https://x.com/i/status/1897136668228116882
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Is this a Trump apologists forum? Didn't know it was a thing at GT.ru...
To OP: please, go inform yourself instead of swallowing whatever your president tells you whole..
Those are old "news" and what you're doing is trying to spread Elon's fake propaganda, which just makes you look uninformed at best, with malicious intent at worst.
What Bernie says is 100% correct, those "findings" have been thoroughly debunked, it's just that Elon's lackeys didn't know how to read code. No 150 year olds get any benefits, neither their relatives.
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Lol nvm, just read the rest of the posts here... It's the same dude pretty much, retransmitting whatever BS his totally democratic president takes out of his bakside..
Not gonna engage any more, the brainwashing is too strong.
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@r3c3pt0r Way to bring in facts - NOT
"What Bernie says is 100% correct" - which I conceded.
"Nobody - NOBODY! - who is 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks."
Yes, Bernie.
You nailed it
Their checks probably go to younger people.
I know you libs can be slow, but.... Try to keep up. OK?
"Not gonna engage" - Too late. Try better next time!
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birth dates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago.
The news organization WIRED first reported on the agency's use of COBOL, a programming language which is more than 60 years old.
Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration's inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.
The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.
New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
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@hubrys Why do you want fraud?
They established that some bad checks go out.
I have seen lib hippies for decades, talk about how to do it. Why do libs, suddenly, conveniently in 2025, want to deny their own lived experience?
What new-found religious sense of libs, is offended, if we admit that which libs have known & advertised for decades?
Your own article describes software so messed up, it would support fraud well.
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Of course not. Conceded. Younger people get them.
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@blablarg18 said in USA "Social Security" system has some fraud. Watch Bernie Sanders pretend he doesn't know:
They established that some bad checks go out.
To be sure, there are instances of overpayments and fraud within the Social Security system. A July 2024 report from Social Security's inspector general stated that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6 trillion in benefits, including $71.8 billion — or less than 1% — in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.
The statements being made by Trump and DOGE are patently false. Millions of dead people are not getting checks. No one 130, 150, 300 years old is receiving checks. The SSA automatically stops payments at the age of 115 by default regardless.
Finding that 10, 100, or 1,000 dead people who receive checks doesn't make Trump and Musk's statements true. They didn't say that 10, 100, 0r 1,000 people were getting checks. They said millions. And they did so because they were either too stupid to understand the computer language used by SSA, or they did understand and were too deceitful to care.
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@blablarg18 said in USA "Social Security" system has some fraud. Watch Bernie Sanders pretend he doesn't know:
Your own article describes software so messed up, it would support fraud well.
The software is only "messed up" because DOGE doesn't know how COBOL works. It is an antiquated programming language that is not taught in schools anymore. SSA is not the only agency that relies on COBOL.
And it's not even the worst record-keeping system the US has. The National Archives, responsible for keeping up with the employment records, retirements, and pensions of every government employee going back to the late 1800's, are stored on paper in manilla folders underground in a limestone mine near Kansas City. The records are manually updated, on paper, by government workers going in and out of the caves like ants and replacing files in folders in filing cabinet drawers.