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Do we send Social Security checks to everyone in the Social Security database?
by loktarogar 2y ago
Do we send Social Security checks to everyone in the Social Security database?
- MrBuddyCasino 2y agoThere is a flag that marks an entry as active. If that flag was set to inactive, there wouldn’t be an issue.
- loktarogar 2y agoI'm not worried about Social Security knowing if everyone in their DB is alive or not. I am only worried about dead people still receiving funds. How many of those 20 million are receiving funds? If someone is marked alive incorrectly and is not receiving funds, I do not care if that data is bad. It's not ideal, but it's not an actual problem.
- MrBuddyCasino 2y agoYes, the issue is if there is social security fraud, not if someone is incorrectly filed as alive. We will see how much of it was fraudulent once the suspicious database entries have been investigated.
- loktarogar 2y agoSo it's not 20 million checks, then?
- MrBuddyCasino 2y agoToo early to tell. But if the Covid PPP Loan Fraud is any indication, the potential is massive.
- loktarogar 2y agoHere's how to tell, far easier: take the number of people receiving checks in that age bracket. From what I read, it was 44,000 ish, but I can't verify that. If it's not - it's still going to be a number far less than 20 million. Do all those people have correct data? If not, correct that. If they do, then there's no fraud. And even after that, even if the data is incorrect, it doesn't mean there's fraud. You have to go case by case to check if they're actually being collected and not just sitting somewhere. So .. yes. There's potential for fraud, but we're not going to (accurately) know about the scale for a long time, and it's definitely not going to be on the scale of 20 million recipients.