"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.

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

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 — ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

He misinterpreted data from SSA's Numident database, which includes outdated records.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