The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced last week that President Donald Trump’s administration had marked 12.3 million individuals ages 120 and over as deceased in a “major cleanup” of Social Security.
In a Friday post on X, formerly Twitter, DOGE tweeted, “After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative: ~12.3M individuals aged 120+ have now been marked as deceased. Some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file. These will be investigated in a follow-up effort.”
In February, DOGE head and Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that there were millions of individuals included in the Social Security database over the age of 120, which is considered to be significantly past the average person’s life expectancy.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Musk tweeted. “Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”
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In March, DOGE confirmed that it was working on a “major cleanup” of Social Security’s records to remove individuals over 120 years old who were still marked as “living.”
“For the past two weeks, @SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records,” DOGE said at the time. “Approximately 3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.”
In April, DOGE revealed that after seven weeks of working to address the “major cleanup” of Social Security, roughly 11 million individuals “all listed age 120+” had been marked as deceased.
According to Friday’s post on social media, the individuals marked by DOGE as “deceased” include 3,383,647 individuals ages 120 to 129, 3,902,117 individuals ages 130 to 139, 3,539,821 individuals ages 140 to 149, 1,352,283 individuals ages 150-159, and 124,170 individuals ages 160-169.
