An 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%.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30195726

Jake Johnson
May 16, 2025

An 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.”

  • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Yeah the context needs to be given of how much was spent finding that fraud vs how much that fraud cost the system. Then ask the question, is a minuscule amount of fraud tolerable if it costs more to find and eliminate it? When they inevitably say the fraud should be snuffed out at all costs then ask why we don’t work to eliminate millionaire level tax fraud. Then they will just start ignoring you because accepting and genuinely contemplating those questions and answers will alter the hate filled world view too much.