Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley Considered the suggestion that the agency is “full of fraud” on Tuesday with “CNN News Central”.
O’Malley, who served from 2023 to 2024 as the Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner under President Biden, discussed the report that the acting SSA Head Michelle King had Put her job up After clashing with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) about access to data.
“Elon Musk has claimed that SSA is full of fraud, which suggests that benefits are paid to dead people, that millions and millions of dollars will waste,” said CNN -Gastheer Boris Sanchez.
O’Malley started to laugh at the accusation.
The former Social Security Commissioner Administration Martin O’Malley laughed for the question of CNN -Guestheer Boris Sanchez about fraud. (CNN -creenshot)
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“You laugh, but that is a concern that many Americans have, right?” Sanchez asked O’Malley laughing. “Is it a laugh?”
“Yes,” O’Malley replied, still laughing. “He has no idea what he is talking about.
He then admitted that “it is a big desk”, so there are “Uitbijters”.
“They are 72.5 million people. Sometimes really desperate people will try to hide the fact that grandma died, so they get a few more checks,” said O’Malley.
O’Malley served as a Commissioner for Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024. (Kurt “Cyberguy” Knutsson)
He added: “More often, because of the checks we have where we interrupt payments of people over a certain age, especially if they stop receiving medicare -benefits … It is more common that we have to recover the benefits when we are They wrongly cut off when someone goes out of the country or something. ”
O’Malley criticized Musk for issuing claims that he “can never go back”.
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‘Ask Elon Musk, show me the 12 people who are 150 years old. He can’t do it. Show me the 200 million that still receive checks. He can’t do it. These 19-year-old Nitwits van Doge who violates the law and picking the personal identifying information from people, they don’t know what they are looking at, “said O’Malley.
The Doge van Elon Musk has claimed that millions of people who have collected checks from the social security database that have mentioned their age on more than 100 years old. (Getty)
Musk has claimed that more than 20 million names mentioned in the social security database were more than 100 years oldIncluding more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age category, more than 3.5 million in the reach of 140-149 and more than 1.3 million in the reach of 150-159. He did not say how much still received benefits.
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