| Follow up to this story from yesterday. |
[NYPOST] Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to uncover ''the biggest fraud in history'' when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over the age of 100 years old.''According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!'' Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old.
''Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,'' he joked, adding that ''there are FAR more 'eligible' social security [sic] numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history.''
However,
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Musk's bombshell has long been known by the Social Security Administration's (SSA) watchdog, which released an audit in July 2023 showing that 18.9 million people listed as 100 years or older — but not dead — were in the database.
Only 86,000 people living in the US at the time were actually centenarians, according to the Census Bureau.