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Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents.

After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that had a high probability of being fraudulent.

The anti-fraud tool set up last month after weeks of changes to the agency’s telephone policies has slowed retirement claim processing by 25% and led to a "degradation of public service,” according to an internal May document that examined potentially cutting the anti-fraud tool for phone claims.

Under the new policy, the agency found that only two benefit claims out of over 110,000 had a high probability of being fraudulent — and they aren’t guaranteed to be so. Less than 1% of claims were flagged as even potentially fraudulent at all.

“No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases,” the internal document said.

The attention to fraud, however, did cause delays, as SSA changed its phone procedures to add the checks on the backend.

The lags stem from the three-day hold placed on telephone claims in order to run the antifraud claims, a move that “delays payments and benefits to customers, despite an extremely low risk of fraud,” as the document noted.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny.

The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

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The bill would would explode the debt by $4 trillion virtually erasing all the work Elon and his team have done.

One of the most promising parts of Donald Trump’s second term was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Musk’s original goal was to find $2 trillion in cuts. DOGE did find billions.

All DOGE could really do, mostly, is find and recommend the cuts. It takes Congress to actually cut the spending. Virtually all Republicans originally supported Musk and DOGE, in rhetoric and theory.

But now the time has come. This isn’t campaign mode. Trump won. That part’s done.

This is getting sh** done mode.

We have a Republican president RIGHT NOW. We have a Republican Congress RIGHT NOW. This might be the only chance that Republicans could actually make the cuts DOGE recommended.

And yet the current spending bill - that passed a Republican led House - does none of that.

In fact, it adds $4 trillion to the national debt.

WTF? ...




... Thomas Massie caught holy hell from MAGA Republicans for opposing the House spending bill that passed. He was joined by Warren Davidson.

Why did Massie oppose it? For the same reasons Musk said in that interview: It does not include the DOGE cuts and adds trillions to America’s $36 trillion national debt.

But Republicans were supposed to support it because… well, that’s unclear. Something about cutting spending in ten years which is totally unrealistic and we’ve heard it before. The cuts never comes. ...

The re-election of Donald Trump has given Americans a unique chance to begin to clean up our debt and endless spending, an effort no Democrat or conventional Republican president was likely to lead.

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?