'Huge scandal': Internal documents catch Trump admin in massive Social Security lie

[turbinetree]

By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Published May 16, 2025 9:52 AM ET

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."

The anti-fraud checks for Social Security have been applied only to benefit claims made over the phone. According to the internal document, "No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases." Earlier this year, amid widespread outrage, the Social Security Administration (SSA) walked back a proposal to scrap many of its phone-based benefit claim services.

https://www.rawstory.com/huge-scandal-internal-documents-catch-trump-admin-in-massive-social-security-lie/

Hey Frank Bisignano, the newly confirmed SSA administrator............I am not dead...............just for the record............

[rich7862]

1. Tariffs are a method of raising taxes to pay for the oligarchy not paying taxes [the brutally rich among us]

What is good about trump raising our taxes with tariffs?
trump will use this tariff money anyway he chooses?
No accountability, the tariff money is going right into trump’s pocket
to hire an army to take away our rights.
The money is not going to China. Please people WAKE UP.

[poozwah]

2. taxiffs

for years the republicans have been promoting a national sales tax to replace our current system of taxation. they have found that ignorant americans do not realize that tariffs are a regressive tax which will affect them more adversely than today’s system. taxes should be raised on the wealthy, lowered on the middle and lower income earners. no loopholes. no caps. no attorneys lobbying congress for the privileged few. were were GREAT when we taxed the wealthy. we were GREAT when we did not have tax scams such as trickle down. we were GREAT when we were more socialist than capitalist. one need only look at the effect that even the threat of tariffs will do to our economy.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Huh? What does this have to do with alleged social security fraud? n/t

[Bettie]

4. Remember, they are POTENTIALLY improper

so, I'm guessing that at least one of the two involves an error somewhere in the paperwork.

[stopdiggin]

5. this was another case of Elon talking out of his a__ .

Curious how these 'genius' guys - can be dead wrong, about so many things ... And with such frequency.

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[exboyfil]

6. And if they were a minority class

They only have their jobs because of DEI - see how incompetent they are.