According to a report from The New York Post, DOGE has discovered millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on unemployment claims for “fake people.”
Some claims are from people who aren’t even born yet and some are from out of the country, the efficiency agency reports.
DOGE claimed it reviewed an initial survey of unemployment claims since 2020 that found that 9,700 people whose birth dates aren’t for another 15 years have claimed $69 million in benefits.
Another 24,500 people over the impossible age of 115 claimed $59 million in benefits; and some 28,000 people between the ages of 1 and 5 years old claimed $254 million in benefits, DOGE discovered.
An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed…— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025
“Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!” Musk said on X. “This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in.”
“The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting “unemployment” due to being dead. There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance,” he added in a later post.
The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting “unemployment” due to being dead.
There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance. https://t.co/UjlBk2KQIu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025
More over at The New York Post:
Elon Musk’s DOGE discovers millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on unemployment claims for ‘fake people’ https://t.co/NIdqu3OYi9 pic.twitter.com/k2idO1SxWB
— New York Post (@nypost) April 10, 2025
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