Comment by aredox
3 days ago
"The agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9m social security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.
The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9m."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-social...
Does it mean that they are definitely NOT receiving benefits, though?
It's addressed in a foot note:
>At the time of our review, approximately 44,000 of the 18.9 million number holders were receiving SSA payments.
It was mentioned earlier in the article there are 531 million SSN in the system total.