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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley He considered the suggestion that the agency is “full of fraud” ridiculous in “CNN News Central” on Tuesday.
O’Malley, who served as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) under President Biden from 2023 to 2024, discussed the report that the head of the SSA in action Michelle King had Leave your job After facing Elon Musk and the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) about access to the data.
“Elon Musk has affirmed that the SSA is full of fraud, which suggests that benefits are being paid to dead people, that millions and millions of dollars will lose,” said CNN host Boris Sánchez.
O’Malley began to laugh at the accusation.
The former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Martin O’Malley, laughed at the question of the host of CNN Boris Sánchez about fraud. (CNN screen capture)
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“You are laughing, but that is a concern that many Americans have, isn’t it?” Sánchez asked while O’Malley continued laughing. “Is it a matter of laughter?”
“Yes,” O’Malley replied, still laughing. “He has no idea what he is talking about. It’s not like a zombie apocalypse of people, you know, the bodies that run with social security checks that come out of their pockets.”
Then he admitted that “it is a great agency”, so there are “atypical values.”
“There are 72.5 million people. Sometimes, really desperate people will try to hide the fact that the grandmother died, so they receive a couple more checks,” O’Malley said.
O’Malley served as Commissioner for the Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024. (Kurt “Cyberguy” Knutsson)
He added: “More often, due to the checks we have in their place where we interrupt the payments of older people of a certain age, especially if they stop receiving the benefits of Medicare … more common that we have to restore the benefits when the We erroneously cut, when someone moves from the country or something. ”
O’Malley criticized Musk for presenting statements that “he can never go back.”
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“Ask Elon Musk, show me the 12 people who are 150. Malley
Elon Musk’s dug has affirmed that millions of people who collect checks from the Social Security database have their ages in the list of more than 100 years. (Getty)
Musk has affirmed that more than 20 million names listed in the Social Security database They were over 100 years oldIncluding more than 3.9 million in the age range of 130-139, more than 3.5 million in the range of 140-149 and more than 1.3 million in the range of 150-159. He didn’t say how many continued to receive benefits.
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