DOGE Survey

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
- 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
- 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
- 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed…

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025

… $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting “unemployment” due to being dead.

There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance. https://t.co/UjlBk2KQIu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025