Affiliates of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service are advocating for mandatory identity verification before government benefits are paid, intending to reduce fraud. The Social Security Administration recently announced tougher verification requirements, but there are concerns about access amid staff cuts. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supports increased identity verification, claiming it could save the government a trillion dollars yearly, although this claim lacks backing. Testing from the Department of Homeland Security reveals that current digital identity verification technologies may not be reliable, raising questions about their efficacy during the pandemic's fraud surge.
Digital identity verification solutions that require people to take a photo of their physical ID and a selfie to prove that they are who they claim to be proliferated across some benefit programs during the pandemic.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for more identity verification software on federal payment processors, citing her belief that it could save a trillion dollars annually, despite lacking evidence for this claim.
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