DOGE tool built to track GOP's wild 40% Social Security fraud claim finds next to nothing [View all]
Source: Raw Story
May 15, 2025 6:28PM ET
Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency is facing a new round of questioning after a failed fraud crackdown created even more chaos at the Social Security Administration and found little to no fraud.
Already reeling from office closures, staff shortages and service cuts, the struggling agency is now reportedly being slowed down even further by an anti-fraud tool that barely caught any fraud while dramatically slowing down the system.
As senior correspondent Eric Katz reported Thursday for Government Executive: DOGE said 40% of phone calls into Social Security centers were fraud, so it built a tool to track it. Turns out the 40% was actually 0.0018% and the tool slowed down processing significantly.
According to internal documents obtained by journalist Natalie Alms surrounding the new anti-fraud checks on phone claims, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, she wrote on X.
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