Social Security officials pull plug on 'ineffective' DOGE program that sparked mass chaos

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/doge-social-security-2672035110/

Social Security officials pull plug on 'ineffective' DOGE program that sparked mass chaos

Tom Boggioni
May 17, 2025 2:13PM ET

A key Social Security program mandated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was ordered shut down on Friday for not only being "inefficient" but also creating chaos for those applying for their benefits and those who process claims.

According to a report from the Washington Post, officials from Elon Musk's creation designed to root out waste had demanded "a security check, developed at DOGE’s request, that was meant to root out allegedly fraudulent claims filed over the phone," which, in turn, was a bust.

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"Many of the major changes DOGE pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction," the Post reported with one former official admitting she is not surprised.

Kathleen Romig had already pointed out that there were safeguards in place before DOGE's meddling and explained, "So much of this is self-inflicted wounds."

Another former high-ranking official agreed, telling the Post, "People lacked the fortitude to tell DOGE there was no fraud because they were afraid to lose their jobs. They knew there was no fraud.”

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(Efficient. Ya sure.)

[EdmondDantes_]

1. Nobody is committing fraud at scale for Social Security

It doesn't profit enough for the time to sit on the phone. Text/email scams are profitable because they cost nothing. Labor intensive scams target bigger profits like someone's 401k or corporate information where you can get into ransomware, or if they are going for like an Apple gift card, it's get in get out. Social security would be a long con, and the chances of getting caught go up far higher/faster than your profit potential.

[senseandsensibility]

2. I also worry about the employees of SS who lost their jobs

Even if some of these policies are reversed, will there be enough workers to put them back in place the way they were before?

[elocs]

6. Nothing in America will ever be the way they were before. n/t

[yellow dahlia]

3. This is not efficiency.

This is a crime spree.

[C_U_L8R]

4. How much have the Doge bumblefucks cost us?

For all the chaos they caused, Republicans should be forbidden from governing anything more than keeping their mouths shut and staying out of everyone's way. What corrupt incompetent dumbshits.

[vapor2]

5. The fraud and waste rests with doge period

[Cha]

7. TY Kick

[BurnDoubt]

8. Edolph doesn't have Immunity. Is he fluent in Spanish?

[tavernier]

12. Probably as fluent as Malaria is in 5 languages.

[patphil]

9. I have no doubt that all of the programs in the Social Security system have to be validated.

That process is complex, and takes a lot of time. These DOGE boys just slapped something together in a couple weeks that had a zero chance of working properly.
Maybe working as DOGE intended, but not in a manner consistent with a validated system.
So, they fucked up the system...a side benefit of being more efficient and free from fraud and abuse.
I'm glad to hear they're shit is being flushed.
All the other agencies that have had "malicious" code inserted into their systems should do the same thing.

[malaise]

10. Huge

Lock them up

Rec

[aggiesal]

11. It was never about fraud!!! ...

It was about crippling Social Security & it's reputation, so that they could hand it over to Wall St.

Social Security officials were smart to dump DOG-E code before it does more damage to the system & their reputation.