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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relationship connected X shared eyebrow-raising findings from a survey of unemployment security claims.
The "initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020" recovered that thousands of radical with aboriginal birthdates claimed benefits.
The survey besides indicated that thousands of supposedly precise young and precise aged radical had claimed benefits.
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Elon Musk walks to the White House aft landing successful Marine One connected the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) connected March 9, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
The DOGE station states that the survey found, "24.5k radical implicit 115 years aged claimed $59M successful benefits," "28k radical betwixt 1 and 5 years aged claimed $254M successful benefits," and "9.7k radical with commencement dates implicit 15 years successful the aboriginal claimed $69M successful benefits."
"In 1 case, idiosyncratic with a day successful 2154 claimed $41k," the station besides notes.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the Department of Labor for remark aboriginal connected Thursday morning, but did not person a effect by the clip of publication.
"Your taxation dollars were going to wage fraudulent unemployment claims for fake radical calved successful the future! This is truthful brainsick that I had to work it respective times earlier it sank in," Elon Musk tweeted.
Musk is spearheading the DOGE effort to uncover waste, fraud, and maltreatment successful the federal government.
"The oldest surviving American is 114 years old, truthful it is harmless to accidental that anyone 115 oregon older is collecting 'unemployment' owed to being dead. There was nary sanity cheque for impossibly young oregon impossibly aged radical for unemployment insurance," helium noted successful different post.
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