6.5 Million Social Security Numbers Linked to Those 112 or Older (and Likely Dead)
11th March 2015
More than 4,000 people availed of the government’s employment-verification system using Social Security numbers belonging to people over the age of 112. Trouble is fewer than 40 people are known to have reached that age. That’s one of the revelations from a review by the watchdog for the Social Security Administration.
Don’t you just love that term ‘watchdog’? You will notice that this alleged ‘watchdog’ is never identified in the article. After all, why do that? It’s a watchdog. We all know what watchdogs do! We’re NPR, a Voice of the Crust! You can trust us!
The review also said there were approximately 6.5 million Social Security numbers linked to people 112 years of age or older. The reason, the review said: “SSA did not have controls in place to annotate death information on the … records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies and were likely deceased.”
You would think that the Social Security Administration would have basic checks in place to make sure that their money (i.e. your money) is going to real people who qualify for it. But you would be wrong.