No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits

Elon Kasturi has repeatedly claimed that his so -called Department of Government Skill (DOGE) When the project complained that the one -and -a -half -year -old children were demanding social security facilities, the project discovered widespread official fraud.

But the musk did not provide any evidence to back up his claim, and experts quickly mentioned that it was probably a decade -old coding language curiosity that includes the government payment system.

The musk first claims its time Oval Office press conference Last week, when he claimed that “a social security cursary test, and we got the man there which is 150 years old. Now, you know that 150? I don’t know. I don’t know. Their Guinness Book of World Records should be … so This is an event where I think they are probably dead. “

Although no evidence has been made to back up this claim, it initially picked up the right -wing commentators on the mask’s own X platform, as well as reporting as well Trump’s Pro Media Outlets credibly byThe

Computer programmers quickly claimed that 5 images were not proof of fraud, but rather a strange joke of the benefit system of the social security administration, which was originally written. Kobol, a 60 -year -old programming language It includes the SSA’s database as well as the systems of many other government agencies in the United States.

Cobol is rarely used today, and like this, the cadre of young engineers in the musk may be unfamiliar with it.

Since Cobol has no date type, some implementation depends on a system that has all the dates through Coded at a reference pointThe Is most commonly used May 20, 1875It was the date of an international standardized conference held in Paris, known as “Convention Du Matre”.

These systems are default at reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, which means all entries of 2025 will display the age of 150.

This is just a possible explanation for what was found on the day of the day. Kasturi can also only look for SSA’s own website, which explains that the agency has automatically shut down the benefits from September 25 When someone arrives at the age of 115The

However, on Monday morning, the musk was doubled, by posting a screenshot of what he claimed, “The Social Security Database” was a picture of X, he wrote that “the number of people in each age bucket with Death Field is false!”

Statistics suggest that more than 10 million people are collecting facilities over the age of 120.

“Perhaps the twilight has a lot of vampires to collect real and social protection,” Kasturi wrote.

Database took screenshots from about 1 million people listed, which is five times the number of people who benefited in 2021, SSA’s own websiteThe It is significantly higher than the whole US population.

People who have died in the social security system have millions of entries that are probably different from potential cobol -ized errors, and not even news. A report written by the Inspector General of SSA in 2023 It has been found that 98 percent of the 98 percent of the age 100 or older in the social security database does not have any advantage. The report has been added that the database will not be updated because it will spend a lot of money to do.