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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org to c/conservative@lemm.ee

Massive fraud "red flag”, could also be a matter of data integrity issues. Anyway another example why DOGE is needed.

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[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Or... You know fix our broken social security system that is used as identification. But sure, enabling an unelected Nazi supporting lunatic to strip our government down as he sees fit is an option that makes sense if you're an uninformed asshole.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago

I feel like Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here, too. If Leon had found fire (fraudulent benefits), he would have posted fire instead of smoke.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

Occams razor tells me this is most likely caused by shitty SQL by his teenage goon squad

Nah, I don't think so. The COBOL explanation sounds more logical to me. Whatever it is - needs to be fixed.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

The language wasn't the point. The point is that if this data is being retrieved by these young clowns, we can't trust any of it. There is no good excuse for Elon to have given them this much responsibility.

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I mean keeping all the data is needed. Those numbers are tied to people dead or not, you cant reuse them. So yes keeping a record of each number and its accounting was a massive undertaking and was stated when they implemented it.

[-] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Another conservative with a public humiliation fetish. Look at that post history.

[-] Tyrangle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I'm curious to see how DOGE ends up handling this. Given the scale of potential fraud, you'd probably need a dedicated task force just to help sift through cases and figure out what's going on. If you do uncover fraud, then you'd need more people to hold the guilty parties accountable. It might take a few years to work through such a huge number of cases, and with more people aging out of the system each year, it'd likely need to be an ongoing effort. You'd basically need to create a whole new fraud agency to deal with this problem, which is ironic given that the IRS already does this and we're actively trying to downsize them.

[-] DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today -3 points 2 years ago

Fuckin' loving what DOGE is doing! So fun!

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