The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has said the Social Security Administration has undertaken a “major cleanup” of its records of individuals aged 120 or more this month.
“For the past two weeks, [the Social Security Administration] has begun a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done,” DOGE wrote in a post on the X social media platform early Tuesday morning.
The Musk-led organization showed a chart that broke down the records by age brackets, showing that more than 817,000 records with individuals aged 120 to 129 were removed in March. More than 1.1 million accounts with ages ranging from 130 to 139, more than 1.1 million accounts with ages of 140 to 149, and more than 186,000 with accounts aged 150 to 159 were removed this month, the chart showed....
