150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/

by ConfusedDog • 1 year ago

15 4 1 year ago

So if the data field for DoB is missing. It revert to use year 1875. "The figures suggested that over 10 millions people aged over 120 were collecting benefits." So what about like age 120? Anyone has experience with this issue? Just curious.

jaldhar• 1 year ago

I forget where, but some person said Social Security began in 1940. As eligibility for payouts begins at age 65, a DOB in 1875 would have been the earliest valid one. Even fairly recently, quite a few people didn’t know the exact date they were born and in the 40s bureaucrats might have been more inclined to cut them some slack.

ConfusedDog2• 1 year ago

From what I read, in case of missing DoB, they might not use DoB as the qualifier. But then they have a policy to reverify at age 115 or something and every 7 years after that. But to say there are millions of people run into this nuance is still weird to me.

johng• 1 year ago

The fact that people have been entered and allowed to remain without a dob this long is worrying. So best case scenario is still rife with fraud potential.

150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits

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