"Government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109," U.S. President Donald Trump ...

"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," tech billionaire Elon Musk said on X.

President Donald Trump incorrectly interpreted data shared by Elon Musk when he misleadingly claimed on Feb. 18 that ...

DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are falsely implying that millions of dead Americans are receiving Social Security ...

This is false. My Social Security number is in the Numident file, and if you have one, yours is, too. That doesn’t mean we’re receiving benefits. Ennis—who was, remember, a Trump appointee ...

As the Social Security Administration cuts staff, Republicans are cheering efforts by the Trump administration and Elon ...

They are the Social Security number files. Internally (within the SSA), it is called the Numident file. This is a file of every Social Security number that has ever been issued and some corresponding ...

In a related but somewhat different audit that has been in the news lately, Ennis in 2023 also looked into the 18.9 million entries in the Social Security Administration’s “Numident” master ...

The Numident file (not pictured) includes every Social Security number that has ever been issued and some corresponding data about the person to whom that number was issued.(diatrezor / Getty ...

Many readers have been emailing me asking for my help in understanding the allegations made by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency about sloppy recordkeeping at the Social ...