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%.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30195726

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.”

  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    21 hours ago

    I think the term “huge scandal” has lost it meaning. How big would something have to be to be an actual scandal worth Paying attention to? A ludicrous scandal?