I heard about the 6,000 immigrants the Trump administration inappropriately put in the SSA Death Master File, but this is 4 million citizens who’ve been marked as dead and probably have had their finances turned upside down for no good reason by the doge youth hacker team.
DAILY BEAST – DOGE’s Social Security Cuts Create Chaotic ‘Day of the Dead Living’ RESURRECTION DAY Elon Musk and his DOGE foot soldiers effectively killed the financial lives of “countless” citizens through their database meddling. Michael Daly Special Correspondent Published Apr. 23 2025 “We have people who did not receive benefits come in every day with their ID and say, ‘I’m not dead, I’m alive!” says Rennie Glasgow, a claims technical analyst with 15 years of experience at the agency who handles the most challenging cases at the Schenectady office. These supposed dead are not to be confused with more than 6,000 living immigrants the Trump administration moved to the SSA Death Master File (DMF) in an attempt to force them to self-deport by depriving them of the ability to work legally. Many more American citizens were wrongly consigned to the DMF after Elon Musk’s DOGE goons bullied their way onto the SSA’s databases and mistakenly decided that “countless” people listed as 120 years old and older were receiving benefits. “[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”
My letter to reps:
How are we supposed to even know if we were marked dead by DOGE in Social Security if we’re not yet receiving Social Security? Is there someone planning on correcting the records of these 4 million people beyond waiting for them to go into offices when they figure out Social Security has them marked as dead? Who’s going to make whole the people whose lives have been disrupted like this? This level of disruption is absolutely unacceptable.
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