Elon Musk, current director of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), revealed surprising findings about a massive fraud in the unemployment insurance system in the United States during the administration of Democrat Joe Biden.
According to DOGE, since 2020 nearly 400 million dollars have been paid in unemployment benefits to non-existent people, including individuals not yet born or with biologically impossible ages.
DOGE, an initiative driven by President Donald Trump to detect and eliminate inefficient spending and fraud within the federal government, analyzed a sample of unemployment insurance claims since the start of the pandemic.
The report found that 9,700 people with birth dates scheduled for more than 15 years in the future received approximately 69 million dollars in benefits. In a particularly absurd case, someone with a birth date in the year 2154 would have collected 41,000 dollars.
Meanwhile, DOGE reported that 24,500 people over 115 years old, age beyond any official longevity record, would have received 59 million dollars. On the other hand, 28,000 minors between 1 and 5 years old also would have claimed 254 million dollars in unemployment benefits.
"Your taxes were being used to pay fraudulent unemployment claims from people born in the future!" Musk exclaimed in a post on X, calling the findings so unbelievable that he had to "read it several times to understand it."
