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... "We have people who did not receive benefits come in every day with their ID and say, 'I'm not dead, I'm alive!" Rennie Glasgow, a claims technical analyst with 15 years of experience at the SSA's Schenectady office in New York. ...

The work began after Musk, who is spearheading President Donald Trump's vast federal spending cuts, claimed in February that millions of people " many who would be long dead " over the age of 100 could be collecting Social Security benefits.

The SSA clarified that the figures had been misinterpreted and the millions of records Musk referenced include individuals who, while not receiving benefits, have records lacking a recorded date of death. ...