DOGE shifts the crosshairs
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Remarkable, if true. I wonder if any of the "payments to people who are dead" are just the normal (legal) payments to the family members of a deceased person. Either way, you think this would be an easy-ish problem to solve. Massive data, but a relatively simple set of fields in the database used to track each
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Remarkable, if true. I wonder if any of the "payments to people who are dead" are just the normal (legal) payments to the family members of a deceased person. Either way, you think this would be an easy-ish problem to solve. Massive data, but a relatively simple set of fields in the database used to track each
pennynickel.@89th said in DOGE shifts the crosshairs:
Remarkable, if true. I wonder if any of the "payments to people who are dead" are just the normal (legal) payments to the family members of a deceased person. Either way, you think this would be an easy-ish problem to solve. Massive data, but a relatively simple set of fields in the database used to track each
pennynickel.
But that seems to be the issue. Those fields weren’t being filled in.The Brad
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But critics have raised the alarm about an unelected official gaining access to the payment records and personal details of Americans.
Uhm, the entire bureaucracy is filled with 3 million unelected personnel and hundreds of thousands of those with access to payment records and personal details of Americans.
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Musk said he was told there are currently over $100 billion per year of entitlements payments to individuals with no Social Security Number or "even a temporary ID number."italicised text
By who? As @89th says, it should easy to figure out if that number is correct.
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@89th said in DOGE shifts the crosshairs:
Remarkable, if true. I wonder if any of the "payments to people who are dead" are just the normal (legal) payments to the family members of a deceased person. Either way, you think this would be an easy-ish problem to solve. Massive data, but a relatively simple set of fields in the database used to track each
pennynickel.
But that seems to be the issue. Those fields weren’t being filled in.@LuFins-Dad said in DOGE shifts the crosshairs:
I wonder if any of the "payments to people who are dead"
I thought of that while I was watching Mr. Musk.
He was talking about a veteran who received benefits after his 150th birthday, that must be close to the limit for his family.
Irene Triplett was the last person to receive a Civil War pension in the United States. She died at the age of 90 in 2020.
Who was Irene Triplett?
- Triplett was born on January 9, 1930.
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She was the daughter of Mose Triplett, who fought for both the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War.
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Triplett qualified for the pension because she was a helpless adult child of a veteran who suffered cognitive impairments.
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She received $73.13 per month from the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA).
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