Former Social Safety commissioner Martin O’Malley thought of the suggestion that the company is “rife with fraud” laughable on “CNN Information Central” Tuesday.
O’Malley, who served because the Social Safety Administration (SSA) commissioner beneath President Biden from 2023 to 2024, mentioned the report that the performing SSA head Michelle King had give up her job after clashing with Elon Musk and the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) over entry to information.
“Elon Musk has claimed that SSA is rife with fraud, suggesting that advantages are being paid to lifeless folks, that hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} are going to waste,” CNN host Boris Sanchez mentioned.
O’Malley started laughing on the accusation.
Former Social Safety Administration commissioner Martin O’Malley laughed at CNN host Boris Sanchez’s query about fraud. (CNN screenshot)
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“You‘re laughing, however that may be a concern that numerous People have, is it not?” Sanchez requested as O’Malley continued laughing. “Is it a laughing matter?”
“Yeah,” O’Malley answered, nonetheless laughing. “He has no concept what he is speaking about. There’s not like a zombie apocalypse of individuals, you already know, cadavers working round with Social Safety checks popping out of their pockets.”
He then admitted that “it’s a giant company,” so there are “outliers.”
“It‘s 72.5 million folks. Generally actually determined folks will attempt to cover the truth that grandma died, in order that they get a pair extra checks,” O’Malley mentioned.
O’Malley served because the Social Safety Administration commissioner from 2023 to 2024. (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
He added, “Extra usually, due to the checks we have now in place the place we interrupt funds of individuals over a sure age, particularly in the event that they cease receiving Medicare advantages… extra normal is that we have now to revive advantages after we erroneously reduce them off, when anyone strikes overseas or one thing.”
O’Malley criticized Musk for placing out claims that he “can by no means again up.”
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“Ask Elon Musk, present me the 12 folks which can be 150 years previous. He can’t. Present me the 200 million which can be nonetheless receiving checks. He can’t. These 19-year-old nitwits from DOGE which can be violating the legislation and plucking folks’s private figuring out info, they don’t know what they’re taking a look at,” O’Malley mentioned.
Elon Musk’s DOGE has claimed hundreds of thousands of individuals accumulating checks from the Social Safety database have their ages listed at over 100 years previous. (Getty)
Musk has claimed that greater than 20 million names listed within the Social Safety database have been over 100 years previous, together with greater than 3.9 million within the 130-139 age vary, greater than 3.5 million within the 140-149 vary and greater than 1.3 million within the 150-159 vary. He didn’t say what number of have been nonetheless receiving advantages.
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