Social Security Denies Claim It Falsely Classified 2.7M People as Dead
Summary
The Social Security Administration (SSA) denied claims that it planned to wrongly classify 2.7 million people as dead. The claims came from a former SSA employee who said the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pushed this effort to cut off immigrants from benefits and services.Key Facts
- The whistleblower, Jeremiah Schofield, reported the plan in June 2025.
- DOGE, linked to the Trump administration and Elon Musk, embedded staff in federal agencies like the SSA.
- The plan involved adding death dates to people’s records without proof they had died.
- The SSA said it did not add 2.7 million people to the Death Master File.
- Being wrongly listed as dead can freeze bank accounts, stop benefits, and prevent people from working.
- Two key efforts included marking 6,000 individuals as dead based on a DHS list, and a wider plan for 2.7 million entries.
- The whistleblower and others refused to carry out the large-scale plan after checking and finding most people were alive and legally in the U.S.
- A DHS official reportedly said marking individuals as dead aimed to encourage "self-deportation" or detain them when they showed up at SSA offices.
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