Database Lists 12 Million People Older Than 120 as Eligible for Social Security: Musk

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The database reportedly includes millions of supercentenarians and outnumbers the current U.S. population.

More than 12 million people in the Social Security Administration (SSA) database of eligible benefits recipients are listed as being older than 120, according to data shared by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Muskโ€™s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, discovered the data while reviewing SSA records for potential waste or fraud.

โ€œAccording to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to false!โ€ Musk wrote on social media platform X, which he owns, on Feb. 17, sharing a chart of the various age brackets.

The chart shows that there are more than 17 million centenarians who are marked as alive and eligible for benefits in the SSA system, of whom more than 12 million are allegedly older than 120.

More than 1,000 individuals are listed as being between the ages of 220 and 229.

Another person is purportedly in the 240 to 249 age bracket, and the oldest person in the system is listed as older than the United States itself at more than 360 years old.

The oldest living person in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is Tomiko Itooka, 116, of Japan.

โ€œMaybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,โ€ Musk wrote in jest.

SSA data also reflect that the number of eligible Social Security recipients in the system is more than 398 million, yet the Census Bureau estimates the national population to be roughly 341 million.

When another user pointed out the impossibility of the data, Musk confirmed that โ€œthere are far more โ€˜eligibleโ€™ social security numbers than there are citizensโ€ in the United States.

โ€œThis might be the biggest fraud in history,โ€ he said.

The SSA did not immediately respond to The Epoch Timesโ€™ request for comment.

DOGE is delving into federal agenciesโ€™ records and systems as part of its mission to enhance government efficiency by cutting costs and rooting out institutional waste.

President Donald Trump established the temporary organization within the U.S. DOGE Service, formerly named the U.S. Digital Service, on his first day in office.

Byย Samantha Flom

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