DOGE Kills a Seattle man

[Joes Place]

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

www.seattletimes.com

What’s concerning is that no one has been able to tell him how he ended up in the agency’s “death master file.” Had he been conflated with some other poor Leonard Johnson? Was he flagged as dead by a credit agency or the electronic funds transfer system, which then ricocheted back to Social Security? Was it simple input error? Nobody knows. Or nobody’s saying.

Social Security blandly labels this sort of event an “erroneous death determination.”

Johnson said his takeaway is that Social Security needs help — with its databases, but especially with enough staffing to answer the phones. The announced plan from the new administration is to cut 7,000 employees. This past week, the news outlet ProPublica reported on a recording of a meeting in which the director, a Trump appointee, suggested ominously that DOGE’s suggested changes could cause the agency to collapse.

 

[Huey Grey]

Kinda what happens when you put people in charge who have no desire to streamline anything but only want to grift.

 

[Thunderlips71]

Kinda what happens when you put people in charge who have no desire to streamline anything but only want to grift.

“But Enron and his male concubines are geniuses!” PF

 

[DogBoyRy]

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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

www.seattletimes.com

What’s concerning is that no one has been able to tell him how he ended up in the agency’s “death master file.” Had he been conflated with some other poor Leonard Johnson? Was he flagged as dead by a credit agency or the electronic funds transfer system, which then ricocheted back to Social Security? Was it simple input error? Nobody knows. Or nobody’s saying.

Social Security blandly labels this sort of event an “erroneous death determination.”

Johnson said his takeaway is that Social Security needs help — with its databases, but especially with enough staffing to answer the phones. The announced plan from the new administration is to cut 7,000 employees. This past week, the news outlet ProPublica reported on a recording of a meeting in which the director, a Trump appointee, suggested ominously that DOGE’s suggested changes could cause the agency to collapse.

Seems to prove the point of government worker incompetence.

 

[Huey Grey]

Seems to prove the point of government worker incompetence.

Then fire Musk. Oh wait. He doesn't actually work for the government yet somehow has all this power.

 

[Joes Place]

Seems to prove the point of government worker incompetence.

Except it doesn't happen that often, and DOGE messing with the systems appears to have triggered this one (and will trigger others)

 

[Joes Place]

 

[MitchLL]

Seems to prove the point of government worker incompetence.

Wow...this one sailed over your head and is still rising!

 

[The Tradition]

No, it's this one:

 

[lucas80]

Nobody bats 1.000

 

[win4jj]

Nobody bats 1.000

It’s gonna hurt a little bit at first,……. And then you’ll be dead!