Post ArO2fBgmvCyS44uFNo by feld@friedcheese.us
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 (DIR) Post #ArO2fBgmvCyS44uFNo by feld@friedcheese.us
       2025-02-22T19:45:47.549823Z
       
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       Wait, how does the Social Security database express spousal benefits? Was this taken into consideration?My dad is dead but his social security is still being paid out to my mom. Because the law was that you can receive theirs if it's higher than your own. But you can't collect your own anymore.So are these some of the "dead people" that are being paid?
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO31QyWljXdqQoNzE by sun@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T19:51:03.540424Z
       
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       @feld we'll probably never get insight into this.so whats funny to me is a lot of the way DOGE is doing things is conceptually what I want, they are just fucking it up in practice.Like, they talk about something and in less than 24 hours they have a spreadsheet of numbers of what they are talking about. There is a single guy that you can ask and he produces an answer, and the answer actually goes into detail.This actually feels like a responsive and fully modern government office (at least in terms of communication) in a lot of ways.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO3A3AMeyIsbmSNZg by RandomDamage@infosec.exchange
       2025-02-22T19:48:29Z
       
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       @feld almost certainly
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO3A4F0fBc5wTdbSC by feld@friedcheese.us
       2025-02-22T19:51:59.670344Z
       
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       @RandomDamage This is something the average person probably isn't aware ofIn this case someone who is like 150 could still be receiving benefits if it was going to a much younger wife ... much like how the woman was still receiving the Civil War benefits because the super old guy married the young girl in the early 1900s as he wanted her to be financially secure
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO3MwjlsENSQyARBw by sun@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T19:54:57.260906Z
       
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       @feld @RandomDamage this is a better theory than all the other crap theories I have seen thrown around but there were entries for people like 360 years.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO4H8V1KUi5883qts by feld@friedcheese.us
       2025-02-22T20:00:55.108965Z
       
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       @sun @RandomDamage Yes some of the extremely high ages are odd but it could be SSNs never recycled for various reasons. They could have reorganized which pools they used for certain geographic areas and some places had major drops in population density so it wouldn't put so much pressure on the pool if the birth rate dropped really low
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO4H9n8WcnN8bXpmC by sun@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T20:05:05.945358Z
       
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       @feld @RandomDamage yeah I am willing to entertain your theory in combination with other various mistakes in the data as sufficient explanatory power for what we see. thanks.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO5BeDoZaxjjSxaYi by feld@friedcheese.us
       2025-02-22T20:14:15.982703Z
       
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       @sun seriously how have none of the Twitter bros feverishly bantering about SS fraud never once mention how the spousal benefits work
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO5BfKwQaG1BrInJ2 by sun@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T20:15:18.654222Z
       
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       @feld they are all 23 years old
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO5NY2JOeGg1VFp5c by sun@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T20:17:28.044682Z
       
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       @feld isn't the better question is why not musk
       
 (DIR) Post #ArO6XvhwLEfCHyEvQW by Leyonhjelm@shitposter.world
       2025-02-22T20:30:33.953591Z
       
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       @sun I’m completely open to fair explanations and speculation. I’m not open to arguments that it’s not worth looking into if there are questions. @feld @RandomDamage