The driving force behind US President Donald Trump’s Budget-Taking Efficiency (Dog) has explained the sensitive issue of social security cost savings on TV channel Fox Business TV channels.
Former Trump’s financial adviser host Larry Kudol told Mask that the government’s responsibility has estimated the federal government’s fraud “half trillion dollars” in 224.
Referring to the waste, “Most federal costs are the right.
By using the word “eliminating” in the same breathing as “rights” between Trump and Kasturi’s democratic critics. The White House’s press secretary Carolin Lewit said in a March 11 newspaper that the musk was referring to the garbage. Deceit And those programs are misbehaving and Trump will “protect social security”, Medicare and Medicide.
Incentives at the event held on March 11 Tesla A reporter in the White House asked Kasturi to guarantee that there would be no interruption in social security benefits?
“We are going to be very careful about any benefits,” said Musc. “In fact, we can actually save that event in the future with the confrontation of waste or fraud.”
“Cheating” and “waste” means different things. Waste is a negligent use reference to use and the crime of fraud.
Kasturi referred to the report of the Non -Parliamentary Auditing Arm of the Congress, which inspects the federal expenditure, the government responsibility office (GAO). In 224, the office estimates that per year, fraudulent payments in the government are $ 233 billion to 1 521 billion.
This report proceeded beyond social security, Medicare and Medicade, which is in half Infectious?? These include the entire government, which contains related relief programs from all over the country (or continent) that result in a record fraud.
Kasturi said that cheating and garbage cut will help his efforts to reduce $ 1 trillion from the federal budget. But its estimation of fraud is at the top of the GAO’s estimate or higher. For social security, the Inspector General of 2021 was given about a third of the M300M payments after the death of the beneficiaries of about two decades-one-third of them recovered. Although the federal authorities have recognized the improper costs for a long time as the officials of the officials, this is not the main reason for the horrific financial approach to the program.
What does the government know about the overall fraud?
In April, the Government Responsibility Office, led by President Joe Biden, had estimated the prevalence of the government for the first time.
According to the reports of fraudulent reports submitted in the agency inspector General and the Management and Budget Office, according to statistics of 1-20-5 per year, the office estimates of $ 233 billion to $ 321 billion per year.
When he called “half trillion”, Kasturi cited a high end of the range. The White House did not respond to our question about its $ 600 billion to $ 700 billion.
GAO’s top-line statistics not only include the conclusions of official fraudulent actions on legal action, but also estimates on the conclusions of the fraud of the individual agency. It is believed that the agency represents the fraud discovered.
The approximate loss represents about 3 to 7 percent of the federal outlet.
Based on the amount confirmed by the court or the judiciary process, the agency, which assisted the President in the management and the budget goals, the low amount of the federal government’s fraudulent amount of the federal government’s fraud 41.41.
Experts in the federal budget said that it is important to look into the entire analysis of the government’s report.
Joshua Sivell, the director of the research and policy of taxpayers for taxpayers, said that taxpayers should see this number “massive grain of salt”. This report is full of caution and there is no representative of the other years due to the increase in the cost of the disease.
He said, “This is a good report to try to keep numbers on a mysterious problem, but you cannot take a high-end number as a fixed statement of the dollar dispute in the federal cost,” he said.
It is possible that around the annual federal budget is lost due to fraud and some programs have more than 5 percent payment rates, said Bob Westbrocks, Executive Director of all partisans’ reactions. But the phrase “inappropriate payments” does not mean cheating; This includes conditions with insufficient documentation.
Westbrocks said, “Whatever the number, it is perfectly huge.”
Westbrocks said musk was confused with fraud and garbage and pushing the government’s estimated range of the Covid -1 -A age, the report states.
The Government Liability Office said that this category is a reflection of the uncertainty related to estimating fraud and the diversity of the risky atmosphere present in the financial year 2018 till 2022. “
What do we know about social security fraud?
At the White House briefing of March 11, Lewit cited a report of an inspector of the social security administration, which only found more than $ 70 billion fraud in that event.
The 2024 report did not conclude that social security was more than $ 70 billion in “fraud”. The program had sent about $ 8.8 billion in “inappropriate payments” from 2 2015 to 9. Is less than 1 percent of the total payment in that period.
On Fox business, Musk said that people submit fake social security numbers to get many government benefits with the help of social security, health care and unemployment.
Most of the inappropriate payments revealed by the Inspector General were more payment with some underpayments. This happens, for example, when the beneficiaries fail to report the required information or fail to update the administration record, the 2024 Inspector General Report said. Both do not represent criminal motives.
The Social Security Administration has struggled for a long time to prevent inappropriate payments.
“Without better access to the data, without automation, system modernization and policy or statement changes, improper payments will be a problem in the future,” the report said.
The Social Security Administration Daministration Duministration Inspector General of 1998 1998 to 2 to 292 beneficiaries found $ 298 million after death. Those beneficiaries were in a suspended payment position, but still payments were sent because technicians did not follow the policy or discovered all available death records. The report states that “specific examples of fraud” and informed the investigating office of death.
The government has recovered about 84m, the report said.
This year, the defendants have been convicted for the fraudulent cash sent to the deceased beneficiaries, the identity used to get social security benefits and the theft of social security payments for children.
How did the Social Security Administration try to solve fraud and waste?
In the Fox Business Interview, Musk said that the federal government has done “very good audit” but the agencies did not consistently implement the guidance of the auditors.
On March 3, the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration announced the status report on its most recent recommendations.
Overall, the Inspector General found recommendations before 100, which were not implemented with a potential savings of $ 4 18.4 billion. In some cases, the Social Security Administration does not agree with these proposals. Some condemnable recommendations include almost a close examination of the beneficiary’s specific groups for whom the agency knows about possible inconsistencies. Others suggested changes in the vigilance of the computer system.
Some of the recommendations of the Government Liability Office to the Congress are not filled. In 2, GAO urged Congress to amend the social security law that sharing the entire death data in the Treasury section permanently, but it has not yet happened.
In a decade of social financial financial difficulty
Further, there is a difficult way for social security. Its existing funding crisis is greater than the events of the deceased being received by the deceased.
The most important danger to the long-term viability of social security is that workers are eligible for the benefit of the lack of workers in their tax dollars and retirement-growing Americans.
American Life expectancy 35 In35 has raised the creation of social security and therefore the number of qualified recipients. But as the Baby Boom Generation (born in 1946 to 1964) enters retirement, the low labor system is paying money.
The Social Security Trust Fund will not be able to provide 100 per cent benefits by 2035, the 2024 Social Security Trustee report said. Trustees have made the same warning for more than a decade.
Historically, most politicians in both parties are disgusting to propose social security changes. Political pundits are often referred to as the “third rail” in American politics – you touch it, you die, at least on the ballot, where old voters are usually the highest turnout.