Trump Sent Elon Musk To Track Fraud At Social Security And Found Nothing

Elon Musk claimed that 40% of phone calls to Social Security were fraud, so he set up a system to track calls. Musk found no fraud, but he did delay Social Security processing.

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The data about what Elon Musk and DOGE really found when they went on a quest to eliminate fraud in the federal government is slowly leaking out.

Musk has been especially eager to attack Social Security, as he has constantly made baseless claims that Donald Trump has amplified about fraud in the program.

There is only one problem.

When Musk went looking for fraud, he didn’t find any.

NextGov/FCW reported:

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 obtained by Nextgov/FCW that examined pot…