'A Huge Scandal': Internal Doc Exposes Trump-Musk Hunt for Social Security Fraud as a Sham | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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Jake Johnson
May 16, 2025

An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%.

The documents, first reported Thursday by Nextgov/FCW, further undercut President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's narrative that Social Security is brimming with fraud. #Musk falsely claimed in March that "40% of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent."

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[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

No shit. I don't understand how MAGA thinks everyone else was just okay with fraud until Trump was elected. It has been, since inception, designed and continually updated to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.

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