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- 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 4 comments
- No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 45 comments technews
- No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 384 comments technology
- "Computer prgmrs quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud, but rather the result of a weird quirk of the SSA’s benefits system, which was largely written in COBOL... These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete..." https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 128 comments cobol
- No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 53 comments technology
- No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 80 comments economy
- No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ 81 comments politics
Linking pages
- DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/ 1453 comments
- Trump official calls Social Security ‘wrong’ as administration lays groundwork for massive cuts | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-social-security-medicaid-cuts-howard-lutnick-b2701817.html 950 comments
- DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-credit-cards/ 927 comments
- The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/ 680 comments
- Trump official calls Social Security ‘wrong’ as administration lays groundwork for massive cuts | The Independent https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-social-security-medicaid-cuts-howard-lutnick-b2701817.html 670 comments
- RFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2025/02/19/rfk-s-plan-to-make-america-healthy-again-round-up-people-with-mental-health-conditions-in-camps/ 195 comments
- Hiltzik: Social Security is in Trump's crosshairs - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-04/trump-the-gop-and-doge-have-launched-their-attack-on-your-social-security-start-worrying 155 comments
- Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who's Legally Running DOGE | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-leadership-administrator/ 123 comments
- ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/ 121 comments
- These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-access-social-security-administration/ 89 comments
- Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-workers-arent-allowed-to-read-this-story/ 71 comments
- The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-feature-not-bug/ 65 comments
- What Are DOGE’s Plans for the Social Security Administration? — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-social-security-elon-musk-trump-closures-benefits 57 comments
- Trump’s cabinet meetings show just how powerful Elon Musk has become | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-cabinet-b2720805.html 39 comments
- Trump Promised to Protect Social Security. Musk Didn’t. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-musk-doge-social-security/682131/ 12 comments
- DOGE Says It Wants to Find Government Waste. Here’s How Investigative Journalists Do It. — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-government-waste-fraud-approach 6 comments
- Doge takeover of social security seemed ‘based on myth’, says ex-administrator | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/10/elon-musk-doge-social-security 5 comments
- The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-feature-not-bug/?bxid=6008780e14d91b19f03791d0&cndid=63577542&esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_PAGE&hasha=abff244edde2389c06319c11c37b0dbf&hashc=329a047ede0de947c3ae734629806929d18c279766271a669d2fb38507c87b4d&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_022025 4 comments
- ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/?bxid=60afb24fdd5588081114ff03&cndid=21678816&esrc=VERSO_NAVIGATION&hasha=26a1246b64a5516660673c6e870ffd39&hashc=ad1f32808f9b74ea478ac56a8557514ef83b5db8078a08d1a40c86d4920f3ed6&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_031925 4 comments
Linked pages
- USAID paid $44K to Politico, not over $8M as White House claimed. It was for subscriptions | Snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico/ 196 comments
- DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-website-is-just-one-big-x-ad/ 190 comments
- https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf 15 comments
- Musk claims there are 150-year-olds receiving Social Security benefits | Fox Business https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/musk-claims-150-year-olds-receiving-social-security-benefits 0 comments
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