Internally (within the SSA), it is called the Numident file. This is a file of ... The data in that file comes from the form you filled out when you got your first Social Security card.

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 ...

Internally (within the SSA), it is called the Numident file. This is a file of ... The data in that file comes from the form you filled out when you got your first Social Security card.

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 ...

The Numident file (not pictured ... The data in that file comes from the form you filled out when you got your first Social Security card. To refresh your memory (because most people reading ...

The SSA relies on an electronic file known as Numident, which contains personally identifiable information for every individual issued a Social Security number. This data is crucial for maintaining ...

He misinterpreted data from SSA's Numident database, which includes outdated records.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.

What Musk was looking at was data from what’s called the Numident database, or “Numerical Identification System,” which is a database of every Social Security number issued. And it’s true ...

The numbers he mentioned appeared to be from a system called the Numident, the Rosetta Stone-like computer database that contains basic information on every Social Security number ever issued.

On Feb. 11, 2025, Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, claimed during a news conference at the White House ...