Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed in a bombshell finding that millions of dollars in unemployment claims have been going to “fake people” who haven’t even been born yet — some not even in this century.
DOGE claimed it reviewed an initial survey of unemployment claims since 2020 that found that 9,700 people whose birth dates aren’t for another 15 years have claimed $69 million in benefits.
In one absurd case, a person whose birthday was listed in the year 2154 claimed $41,000, according to an X post by the department.
Another 24,500 people over the impossible age of 115 claimed $59 million in benefits; and some 28,000 people between the ages of 1 and 5 years old claimed $254 million in benefits, DOGE discovered.
“Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!” Musk raged on X.
“This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in,” he added.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by President Trump with heading the newly created DOGE’s efforts to cut wasteful spending and uncover fraud in the federal government.
“The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting ‘unemployment’ due to being dead,” he said in another post about DOGE’s troubling findings.
“There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance.”
