DOGE has 10 staffers at Social Security in hunt for dead people

There is now 10 employees in the government efficiency management in Illon Musk, where the White House is looking for Trump for evidence that supports its claim that there may be millions of dead people who receive general advantages.

Two declarations are divided into the Federal Court late on Wednesday that SSA has worked in recent weeks to include four private government employees and six other employees in Dog on loan from other departments.

Their mission: Discovering waste, fraud and abuse of the 90 -year -old Social Insurance Agency.

Musk described the social security as the “Ponzi scheme”, and this week suggested that there may be up to $ 700 billion annually as fraud in entitlement. Critics have said that he is making a step to reduce the famous program. Others are concerned about access to the Musk team to the most sensitive Americans.

From 2015 to 2022, social security estimated that it has achieved approximately $ 72 billion of improper payments – less than 1 % of the benefits paid, according to a general inspector.a reportlast year. Not all of this was due to fraud, however, all, except $ 23 billion, was able to recover it.

At least seven DOGE employees have been granted access to a database known as the main file for social security numbers and SSN applications, also known as Numident. They currently have a reading access only as they try to connect points between social security numbers and possible fraudulent benefits.

This database is often missing death dates, which is the fact that President Donald Trump and Misk, his billionaire consultant, used as a basis for allegations that more than 20 million people more than 100 are still on social security lists.

Trump said in aletterTo Congress last week.

Liland DodekThe anti -fraud expert that Trump promoted to the Social Security Commissioner last month after Dudek was suspended to cooperate with DOGE, to these allegations.

Just because the date of death is missing from Numingent does not mean that the payments are made.statement. It is managed in a separate database, the main beneficiary record.

He said: “We are steadfast in our commitment to assembling fraud, waste, abuse in our programs, and to actively correct contradictions with the missing dates of death.”

Death data

In fact, at least six employees work in Dog at the agency with death data. The Social Security Administration maintains a Master’s death file of more than 94 million deaths collected from state records and funeral managers.

Other databases used in hunting are the additional safety record, which contains data on the advantages of deficit and the deposit files of the Treasury section. Benefit databases can also contain limited information for taxpayers used to calculate eligibility to obtain benefits.

Michael Rousseau, chief technology official at the agency, said in a statement of the oath, that Dog has access to copies of databases, which limits the ability to make changes. He said there are guarantees to ensure that there are no special servers associated with SSA data.

Rousseau’s statement was included in the court late Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by the American Province of the State and Municipal employees. The Public Employees Union filed a lawsuit against Doug and the Social Security Administration in Maryland, in an attempt to ban what it calls “the seizure of unprecedented data”.

“The general goal of the work performed by the Duja team in SSA is to discover fraud, waste and abuse in SSA programs.” “This level of access ensures that these employees can review the necessary records to detect fraud, but they are not allowed to make any changes to the beneficiary data or payment files.”

Rousseau nor Commissioner Florence Felix Lwson, who presented a separate statement of the right’s letters, will not specify the DOGE staff by name, to avoid exposing them to threats and harassment. “

But private government employees and Duji details at the agency are among the previous ones Timing Antonio Gracias Member of Valor Equity Partners; Scott Coulter, formerly from Lone Pine Capital; Marco Eliz, who was rented by Dog and sent him to social security after his resignation from the Treasury due to reports on racist social media sites.

The Social Security Administration has emerged as a major average for DOGE, as it runs 1.6 trillion dollars of annual advantages, but also because of its unique position to reach a wide range of government data. In fact, Doug’s chase of social security fraud also radiated to other federal agencies.

DOGE team members can also access the national guide for New Hires, a database kept by the Child Support Services Office in Heath and Humanitarian Services to help countries apply the child support orders.

A member of the Social Security team will be sent soon to the small business administration.

The court file also clarifies how the members of the Dog team can move from age to another. Six DOGE employees are loaned to social guarantee from other agencies, including the National Aviation and Space Administration, Personnel Management Office, Ministry of Labor and Public Services Administration.

One of them comes from the American DOGE service, the White House agency that has created an executive order on the opening day in Trump, to create a cost reduction initiative.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com