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Jilly_in_VA

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Sat Jun 6, 2026, 12:19 PM Saturday

Social Security tried to assign fake death dates to 2.7M people: Whistleblower [View all]

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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