cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30195726
Jake Johnson
May 16, 2025An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%.
The documents, first reported Thursday by Nextgov/FCW, further undercut President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s narrative that Social Security is brimming with fraud. #Musk falsely claimed in March that “40% of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent.”
Ya know. With how much social security helps people. Im okay with a portion of my social security payments going to a couple fraudsters.
That’s what I don’t get. Like, yes people will take advantage of anything. Literally anything. But the absolute maximum amount that someone is able to screw out of SS is PALTRY compared to even a SINGLE BUSINESS’S unpaid taxes that the GOP seemingly cannot even perceive.
Not to mention they’re already 99.999% accurate even by Musks reckoning. The cost of adding a few 9’s to that would FAR outweigh the savings.