The database reportedly includes millions of supercentenarians and outnumbers the current U.S. population.
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ThedatabasereportedlyincludesmillionsofsupercentenariansandoutnumbersthecurrentU.S.population.
Morethan12millionpeopleintheSocialSecurityAdministration(SSA)databaseofeligiblebenefitsrecipientsarelistedasbeingolderthan120,accordingtodatasharedbytechbillionaireElonMusk.
Musk’sDepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency,orDOGE,discoveredthedatawhilereviewingSSArecordsforpotentialwasteorfraud.
“AccordingtotheSocialSecuritydatabase,thesearethenumbersofpeopleineachagebucketwiththedeathfieldsettofalse!”MuskwroteonsocialmediaplatformX,whichheowns,onFeb.17,sharingachartofthevariousagebrackets.
Thechartshowsthattherearemorethan17millioncentenarianswhoaremarkedasaliveandeligibleforbenefitsintheSSAsystem,ofwhommorethan12millionareallegedlyolderthan120.
Morethan1,000individualsarelistedasbeingbetweentheagesof220and229.
Anotherpersonispurportedlyinthe240to249agebracket,andtheoldestpersoninthesystemisliste
