The Trump administration plans significant changes to Social Security, citing fraud reduction. Former SSA commissioner Michael Astrue criticizes these efforts as misguided, emphasizing that many involved lack a proper understanding of the system or its legacy coding language, COBOL. While Elon Musk asserts rampant fraud without providing evidence, this stance has been refuted by SSA officials. The proposed policies risk layoffs and increased difficulty for beneficiaries, focusing on stringent identity verification processes that may hinder seniors and disabled individuals from accessing necessary support.
If you want to go in and put in efficiencies to bring down the size of the agency, you can do that. But there's a smart way to do it and there's a stupid way to do it.
Instead of admitting error, he doubled down and had the president of the United States make that claim. And that's a real disservice to President Trump.
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