Editing Social Security (United States) (section)

=== Social Security number holders with no death date ===
In 2025, President [[Donald Trump]] asserted<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSa68GrWmAc |title=WATCH: Trump falsely claims Social Security rife with fraud, including millions of people over 100 |date=2025-03-04 |last=PBS NewsHour |access-date=2025-03-07 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CnoIJidr8 |title=President Trump Participates in the FII PRIORITY Summit |date=2025-02-19 |last=The White House |access-date=2025-03-07 |via=YouTube}}</ref> that the Social Security Administration (SSA) was providing benefits to millions of people between the ages of 110 and 360 years. The SSA does have people in their system who are older than 100 and do not have a recorded death date.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Office of the Inspector General |url=https://oig.ssa.gov/audit-reports/2023-08-01-numberholders-age-100-or-older-who-did-not-have-death-information-on-the-numident/ |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=oig.ssa.gov |language=en}}</ref> An audit report produced by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in 2023 addresses this issue and states, “at the time of our review, although the Census Bureau estimated approximately 86,000 individuals residing in the United States were age 100 or older, SSA’s Numident included approximately 18.9 million numberholders who were born in 1920 or earlier but had no death information on their Numident record”.<ref name="auto"/> The OIG recommended that the SSA input correct death dates to “enhance Government-wide improper payment prevention and detection”.<ref name="auto"/> The audit report includes the SSA’s response to the findings of the OIG and states that the SSA was aware of the missing death dates, but that “the records identified by OIG involve non-beneficiaries and do not involve improper payments. Correcting records for nonbeneficiaries would divert resources from work necessary to administer and manage our programs, which we cannot afford”.<ref name="auto"/> The SSA’s estimated cost to correct the issue was between $5.5 and $9.7 million.<ref name="auto"/> The potential for fraudulent use of these records was in part nullified in September 2015 when the Social Security Administration implemented an automated system where entitlement to benefits is automatically terminated if individuals are listed as 115 years or older.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SSA - POMS: GN 02602.578 - Termination of Entitlement for Title II Beneficiaries Who are Age 115 or Older - 10/28/2022 |url=https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0202602578 |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=secure.ssa.gov}}</ref> Therefore, while the SSA does have millions of people over 115 who do not have death dates in the SSA system, their eligibility for benefits have been automatically terminated and they cannot receive social security payments.