Social Security checks went out to LOTS of dead people

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00:00Dead people are taking your tax dollars, $186 million of those dollars, according to a report

00:06from the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration, and Iowa Republican Senator Joni

00:12Ernst has had enough. She sent the commissioner a letter pleading for him to get his act together.

00:18One part of this letter to Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano pretty much

00:23sums it up. I would ask that you continue doing everything in your administrative powers to stop

00:28sending checks to dead people. The IG report found grieving families were pocketing their

00:33departed loved ones' checks for years, and it went undetective. I don't know, maybe it

00:38eased the grief? Who knows? Stopping Social Security fraud was also a big focus for Elon Musk's

00:46Doge project from earlier this year. He claimed to have found, quote, tens of millions of dead people

00:52in the Social Security system. While that number appears to have been an overestimation,

00:58a 2024 report found that roughly $71.8 billion of the nearly $8.6 trillion in Social Security

01:05payments that year were improper.