"DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People," the headlines read this past week. I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill. Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson's death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant. "You wake up one day and discover you're dead," Johnson told me. "It's been truly surreal."
Oklahoma man says Social Security benefits terminated without warning or explanationwww.wkrn.com
An Oklahoma City retiree said his Social Security benefits were suspended without warning " and with no explanation given when he reached out. He worries it may have to do with the place he was born, and ongoing Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutbacks.
The man, James McCaffrey, who was born to an active-duty U.S. soldier at an overseas Army base, said because of recent comments from DOGE leader Elon Musk, he's worried his benefits were cut because of his foreign birthplace.
McCaffrey said he started to think something was often when he received an unexpected Medicare bill.
"It said that I needed to pay $740 before the 25th of this month or I was going to lose my Medicare," McCaffrey said.
That seemed odd, since his Medicare payment is normally deducted from his Social Security check.
"So I called Medicare," he said. "They returned my call after a wait and told me that they were unable to process it through my Social Security payment, that there was some problem with it. We talked for a bit. He kind of let it out that he thinks it's a possibility that my Social Security was suspended."
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