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   Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:04:54 JST Paul Chambers🚧

   Phase one of Elon's DOGE's Social Security actions is going to be like this,

   *Layoffs. Gut the staff so workload can't be processed so new beneficiaries, except maybe retirees, won't get benefits, appeals wont's be processed, etc

   *Fraud claim: Find any and every error and clerical error, overpayment, minor, harmless infractions, like bank account balances being over the asset limit for a few days for SSI disabled while their bills are processed, etc, even if not the fault of the beneficiary, and claim fraud and take program banishment, repayment and criminal action against the beneficiary.

   *AI Computer photo/social media crosschecking, Run scans on social media to find disabled people doing normal things and claim they are able to do things they have said they are not, and run them up the flagpole for fraud

   *Appeals: Gut the administrative law judges so beneficiaries who are able to appeal, can't get their appeals processed.

   *Media: Claim high fraud and abuse, claim lower numbers of beneficiaries, etc and media will eat it up without evidence #SocialSecurity #Doge #USPol #SSA

   Mark my words/

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:04:53 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     2/ In the mid-aughts, I actually represented someone during a formal conference appeal who had their SSI disability cutoff and received a large overpayment bill from Social Security because their private, elderly landlord only went to the bank and deposited rent checks every few months.

     Every so often, SSA does an asset review, bank accounts, cash on hand, etc, of persons receiving SSI.

     Her rent payments weren't being withdrawn from her bank account even though she was writing the checks, so, several times per year, she had more cash in her checking account that showed up on her statements she submitted during the asset review than the law permitted her to have at one time.

     This had other repercussions, like her Medicaid, which had eligibility attached to her SSI eligibility, being affected, also.

     It was finally resolved but it was a big headache that lasted well over a year.

     I can see Elon and his #doge boys running computer crosschecking programs, crosschecking bank records, etc, and kicking people off without any due process or understanding and wrecking their lives.

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:04:53 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     3/ Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over sensitive data demand #USPol

     archive https://archive.ph/UD0Sz for https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:17 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     9/ Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n1/index.html #SocialSecurity #USPol

     About the program:
     🔗 A Look Back at the Last Decade of the Retirement Research Consortium and Disability Research Consortium (publiched Feb 2020)

     https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n1/v80n1p1.html

     :archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202092306/https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n1/v80n1p1.html

     :archive: https://archive.ph/bgOWE

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:18 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     7/ Social Security is the latest front in Trump and Musk’s attack on trust in government

     The MSNBC columnist linked to a February 17 article by Wired's David Gilbert, who debunked the Musk/DOGE claims about Social Security payments and Americans who are 150.

     https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-social-security-doge-government-trust-rcna192793

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:18 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     8/ Musk hints at cutting $500 billion from 'entitlements' like #SocialSecurity and #Medicare during a CPAC interview.

     https://www.alternet.org/musk-cutting-social-security/ #Doge

     Video of interview
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p3tpSkPc_s

     I hate this thread.

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:19 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     5/ New: DOGE cancel leases and close Columbus, #Ohio Social Security office and the bankruptcy clerks office.

     #SocialSecurity
     DOGE website shows two Columbus leases canceled

     https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/doge-website-shows-two-columbus-leases-canceled

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:19 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     6/ Although the Social Security Admin has privacy notices posted throughout, this morning I got a pop-up when I logged in to the system. These policies aren't new. The pop-up, where I got it, and I've been into the system thousands of times both personal and as a beneficiary representative, is new, esp where it popped up at after I logged into the secure part of the website.

     There may be a gut DOGE reaction when people, esp the media, starts reporting about them. They aren't new policies.

     "We will disclose information under this routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an Agency function relating to this system of records."

     The full pop-up, "Sections 205 and 233 of the Social Security Act, as amended, allow us to collect this information.

     Furnishing us this information is voluntary. However, failing to provide all or part of the information may affect the accuracy of your earnings record.

     We will use the information you provide to correct your earnings record.

     We may also share your information for the following purposes, called routine uses:

     To employers or former employers, including State Social Security administrators, for correcting and reconstructing State employee earnings records and for Social security purposes; and

     To contractors and other Federal agencies, as necessary, for the purpose of assisting the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the efficient administration of its programs.

     We will disclose information under this routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an Agency function relating to this system of records.

     In addition, we may share this information in accordance with the Privacy Act and other Federal laws. For example, where authorized, we may use and disclose this information in computer matching programs, in which our records are compared with other records to establish or verify a person’s eligibility for Federal benefit programs and for repayment of incorrect or delinquent debts under these programs."

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:20 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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     4/ Musk Ally At GSA Demands Admin/Root Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public

     404 Media, "Notify.gov contains not just the phone numbers of everyday people but also information about whether they participate in government programs such as Medicaid, which is based on a person's financial situation. In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with the idea of "fraud" in #Medicaid, #Medicare, and #SocialSecurity, and in identifying those he suspects are committing fraud."

     A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notify system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.

     Shedd is a former Tesla engineer who now runs Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a group of coders and software engineers within the GSA, who is closely allied with Elon #Musk and #DOGE. #USPol

     https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/