Social Security tried to assign fake death dates to 2.7M people: Whistleblower
A whistleblower has come forward to Congress, alleging the Social Security Administration tried to assign fake death dates to 2.7 million people living in the United States as a way to get immigrants to self-deport.
The former Social Security employee, Jeremiah Schofield, said the Department of Government Efficiency, then run by billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk, successfully pushed the agency to assign death dates to 6,000 people. He also alleges the Department of Homeland Security asked the agency to mark an additional 2.7 million people as dead.
Being assigned a death date and moved to the Social Security death master file means immediately losing access to bank accounts, health insurance and credit cards. It can also mean mortgages are cancelled, legal immigration status is revoked and American citizens lose their right to vote.
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Details of the allegations were confirmed by Schofield's attorney. Schofield worked for the agency for 25 years and helped lead IT modernization efforts. He does not know if the 2.7 million people were ultimately marked as dead.
“Jeremiah witnessed Trump Administration officials admit that they were deliberately targeting people whom they had no reason to believe were in fact dead in order to remove them from the Social Security rolls and ultimately from the country,” said Debra S. Katz, one of the attorneys representing Schofield.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/05/social-security-fake-death-dates-doge-whistleblower/90421431007/?tbref=hp
More instances of crooked "bookkeeping" by Shitler and Eloon
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He wants our money because he doesn't have enough of his own. 
Isn't it a little silly that they sent condolences to you, announcing your own death.
Yes the bank made a stupid mistake, but these guys in DOGE aren't fooling around. They have access to our data and they can do whatever they want with it.
In fact, the language supports only 3 types: NUMERIC / ALPHABETIC / ALPHANUMERIC and even then type enforcement can be lax. It also has no native NULL support (which is now fairly standard nomenclature for "unknown" in most modern DB's and languages). In fact from my research it doesn't even support empty string ('', i.e. two single quotes). If there's a variable in your COBOL program, it has to have some THING in it. So the closest you can get to NULL or empty is setting the value to a single space (' '). Natively, I'm talking about.
Thus, it was Social Security's own procedure to set the May 20, 1875 date for records when no DOB was available (at least, in some systems(s)). So not exactly a matter of "being too young to remember COBOL", but rather they didn't bother to read SS's documentation before jumping to conclusions about what that date, when seen in their system, actually means.
But some (on this thread) are kinda supposing there's some relation between the 1875 matter, and this one, but I'm not convinced as of yet that there actually is. If these 2M+ records were simply those with May 20, 1875 dates, it wouldn't necessary target 'immigrants' (from anything I'm able to find/read).
Rather, it's likely that the ex-SSA employee is speaking to some knowledge he had re: the way the list of 2M+ people to 'mark as dead' was compiled, and it's not simply the 1875 placeholder. It's more likely it was done by cross-referencing separate work permit and legal permanent residents lists 
