Social Safety Is Completely Collapsing Because of Elon Musk’s DOGE

The Social Safety Administration is falling aside on the seams as Elon Musk and his gang of reckless twentysomethings proceed their endless pursuit to dismantle the federal security internet.

The company’s web site has crashed quite a few instances in latest weeks as folks try and log into their Social Safety accounts and entry their advantages. Outages have lasted wherever from 20 minutes as much as a day, The Washington Submit reported Monday.

The disastrous technical difficulties set off alarm bells for tens of millions of Individuals, and are available as DOGE has reduce greater than 7,000 staff on the company, together with a 50 % reduce to the expertise division. Musk and his cronies additionally plan emigrate Social Safety knowledge off its present programming language and rewrite the code in a matter of months, which might result in additional web site outages, Wired reported final week.

The billionaire has lengthy set his sights on attacking this system that gives advantages to greater than 73 million Individuals. He’s repeatedly referred to as Social Safety a “Ponzi scheme” and unfold quite a few baseless claims in opposition to the company, together with that Democrats are utilizing Social Safety to draw unlawful immigrants.

“By utilizing entitlement fraud, the Democrats have been capable of entice and retain huge numbers of unlawful immigrants and purchase voters,” Musk mentioned throughout a podcast interview with Senator Ted Cruz final month. “Mainly usher in 10, 20 million people who find themselves beholden to the Democrats for presidency handouts and can vote overwhelmingly Democrat.”

The latest web site outages are doubtless resulting from an untested fraud detector system put in by DOGE that couldn’t stand up to such a excessive variety of customers, the Submit reported. Although customers acquired messages onscreen that mentioned they weren’t receiving funds, their checks had been nonetheless deposited—for now. Beginning April 14, SSA id certification will get rather a lot stricter: Recipients should confirm their id on-line or in individual, which is able to supposedly restrict fraudulent claims. Folks might beforehand confirm their id over the telephone.

The pointless change will little question trigger confusion and technical points to an already overloaded system, placing tens of millions of Individuals’ advantages additional in danger.