Want the latest outrage over waste in the federal government? DOGE has found it again, this time with federal unemployment insurance.
It’s so bad, Elon Musk said, “I had to read it several times before it sank in.”
According to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). the “initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020” discovered that thousands of people receiving unemployment benefits… have birth dates in the future! Yes, meaning they haven’t been born yet!
Along with the “future” people who do not exist, DOGE also found that thousands of people too young to have jobs AND people too old to have jobs had claimed benefits.
Per Fox News:
The DOGE post states that the survey found, “24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits,” “28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits,” and “9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits.”
“In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k,” the post also notes.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Labor for comment: “This is another incredible discovery by the DOGE team, finding nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments,” Department of Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. “The Labor Department is committed to recovering Americans’ stolen tax dollars. We will catch these thieves and keep working to root out egregious fraud — accountability is here.”
“Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future! This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in,” Elon Musk tweeted.
Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!
This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in. https://t.co/U5qqcyUgzo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025
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