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Comment by laweijfmvo

3 days ago

  > This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.

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.