In further significant developments regarding waste identified by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, which he oversees, DOGE made a startling announcement on X (formerly Twitter) revealing that it had uncovered an astonishing $400 million in unemployment insurance fraud, with a considerable portion, approximately 75%, attributed to several blue states.
To provide context, DOGE has been meticulously examining federal expenditures, as is widely recognized, to identify waste, fraud, and abuse that can be eliminated to conserve taxpayer funds. While some frustrating and amusing instances, such as a contract for watering plants, have garnered considerable attention, DOGE’s primary objective is to uncover waste within America’s extensive entitlement and welfare programs that can be reduced.
Given the enormity of these programs, such as Social Security, even minor instances of fraud, when viewed as a percentage, can result in substantial financial losses. For instance, DOGE has discovered that foreign fraud syndicates may have pilfered nearly a trillion dollars from Social Security, largely unnoticed due to the program’s vast scale.
Currently, DOGE is also investigating America’s unemployment insurance program, and its findings reveal predictably extensive fraud. On April 9, DOGE announced its discoveries regarding the program’s misappropriation, highlighting that individuals of implausibly advanced ages, as well as very young children, including those yet to be born, have fraudulently claimed benefits.
In its announcement, DOGE stated, “An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following: – 24.5k individuals over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits – 28k individuals aged between 1 and 5 years claimed $254M in benefits – 9.7k individuals with birth dates set more than 15 years into the future claimed $69M in benefits. In one instance, an individual with a birth date in 2154 claimed $41k.”
Elon Musk, in a quote tweet, expressed his disbelief and frustration regarding the findings of DOGE, stating, “Your tax dollars were being used to fund fraudulent unemployment claims for fictitious individuals from the future! This is so outrageous that I had to read it multiple times for it to fully register.”
Subsequently, DOGE, in a follow-up quote tweet to its initial post, clarified that it had identified three major blue states as the primary culprits behind the majority of the fraud, with California being responsible for over a supermajority of the improper payments made to individuals on the terror watchlist and those with criminal backgrounds.
In that post, it stated, “California, New York, and Massachusetts were responsible for the bulk of these improper claims, amounting to $305 million in unemployment benefits. Furthermore, California alone accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits disbursed to parolees identified by CBP as being on the terrorist watchlist or having criminal records.”
A commenter on that post pointed out the apparent involvement of sanctuary cities in the fraudulent activities, remarking, “So the three states with the most infamous sanctuary cities in the country claimed the highest amount of unemployment benefits fraudulently? It seems highly unlikely that this is merely a coincidence; it certainly appears that illegal immigrants are receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.”
In a similar vein, another commenter on the DOGE post highlighted the political context of those states, stating, “Are you surprised that California, New York, and Massachusetts are at the forefront of fraudulent activities across various sectors? Who holds the political power in these states?”
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