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

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 ...

Furthermore, the audit noted that the Numident is not the only way the SSA keeps death records used to terminate payments to deceased Social Security recipients. Per the audit: SSA terminated ...

While an audit published in 2023 found that the central Social Security database, known as the Numident, does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on record — ...

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 ...

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 ...

He misinterpreted data from SSA's Numident database, which includes outdated records. Actual social security fraud is minimal, with issues more related to overpayments to living recipients.

In July 2023, the Office of Inspector General reported that "SSA has not established controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable ...

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 ...