From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Seems like the waste is at DOGE...
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 15:41:45 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
'After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the
phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is
considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that
had a high probability of being fraudulent.
The anti-fraud tool set up last month after weeks of changes to the
agencyâs telephone policies has slowed retirement claim processing by
25% and led to a "degradation of public service,â according to an
internal May document obtained by Nextgov/FCW that examined potentially
cutting the anti-fraud tool for phone claims.
Under the new policy, the agency found that only two benefit claims out
of over 110,000 had a high probability of being fraudulent â and they
arenât guaranteed to be so. Less than 1% of claims were flagged as even
potentially fraudulent at all.
âNo significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases,â the
internal document said. '
<https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/>
I wonder how much they wasted?