Elon Musk has said that Social Security benefits could increase as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues ...

Musk warned federal employees over the weekend that non-responses to the email would "be taken as a resignation." ...

Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce ...

It is dubious that Elon Musk and his team have uncovered serious fraud at the Social Security Administration, Bloomberg ...

Government computer systems are full of legacy quirks, and upgrading and updating them is a huge and often-fraught endeavor.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said there is widespread fraud taking place in the payment of "federal entitlements" like Social ...

Elon Musk falsely claimed there were tens of millions of people aged 100-159 still receiving Social Security benefits.

The Trump administration claimed the Social Security Administration gives payments to dead people. SSA audits revealed it ...

The top Social Security official stepped down after refusing to provide Elon Musk's DOGE access to sensitive government ...

It is true that improper payments have been made—including some to dead people—but the claims thrown out by Elon Musk and ...

Ronald Gunia, a retired longtime director in the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General who worked on the 2015 and 2023 reports, said that incomplete data can increase chances for ...

As DOGE arrives at the SSA and Elon Musk makes dubious claims about Social Security checks, the political risks are great.