Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made a stunning discovery: millions of dollars in unemployment payouts have been issued to individuals who don’t even exist—some of whom haven’t technically been born yet.
According to DOGE, a preliminary audit of unemployment disbursements dating back to 2020 uncovered that 9,700 supposed recipients listed birthdays that are still 15 years away. These nonexistent individuals managed to collect a staggering $69 million in benefits.
Among the most ridiculous examples cited was one case where someone born in the year 2154 was able to fraudulently obtain $41,000, the department reported in a post on X.
In addition to these futuristic fraudsters, DOGE found that 24,500 people who would be more than 115 years old—well beyond the human lifespan—had received $59 million. Another 28,000 supposed claimants aged between 1 and 5 years old were found to have drawn $254 million in unemployment benefits.
“Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!” Musk wrote furiously on X.
“This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in,” he continued.
President Trump appointed Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, to lead DOGE in an effort to root out fraud and eliminate unnecessary expenditures throughout the federal system.
“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,” Musk commented in another post regarding the investigation’s findings.
“There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance.”
{Matzav.com}