On Tuesday, the Social Security Administration announced the “most comprehensive SSN record clean-up in the agency’s 91-year history” as part of an ongoing effort “to strengthen the accuracy and integrity” of the SSN database.
Early in the current Trump administration, Elon Musk claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had discovered a shocking number of records in the Social Security database: 398 million.
Musk, in an X post, broke then-current numbers down by age group. The breakdown revealed records for over 12.2 million people in the database who were over the age of 120. If you expand that group to include everyone over the age of 100, the total increases to almost 20 million records.
