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| DOGE reveals bizarre findings of unemployment insurance claims survey: 'This is so crazy' |
| 2025-04-10 |
| [FoxNews] The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) account on X shared eyebrow-raising findings from a survey of unemployment insurance claims. The "initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020" found that thousands of people with future birthdates claimed benefits. The survey also indicated that thousands of supposedly very young and very old people had claimed benefits. The DOGE post states that the survey found, "24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits," "28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits," and "9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits." "In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k," the post also notes. Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Labor for comment: "This is another incredible discovery by the DOGE team, finding nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments," Department of Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. "The Labor Department is committed to recovering Americans’ stolen tax dollars. We will catch these thieves and keep working to root out egregious fraud — accountability is here." "Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future! This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in," Elon Musk tweeted. Musk is spearheading the DOGE effort to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. "The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting 'unemployment' due to being dead. There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance," he noted in another post. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 What LG said. Likely a combination of computer errors and bot fraud. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2025-04-10 20:25 |
| #3 DOGE didn't say whether any of these claims were actually paid. Since you can file on line now, there are likely a fair number of claims with typos. Also because there are bots, a lot of claims may be cyber crime where the criminal has a fake street address and fake ID but a real bank account. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-04-10 16:49 |
| #2 first cut them off from their ill-gotten income, then see which ones are real, then prosecute them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-04-10 14:39 |
| #1 Lots of OMG headlines - where are the perp walks, charges filed and convictions |
| Posted by: Griter+Slash1619 2025-04-10 14:28 |