Millions of dollars in federal unemployment benefits have been paid out to people who haven’t even been born yet, according to the most recent findings from the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer shared some of the data during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, saying that in partnership with DOGE, the Department of Labor had uncovered fraudulent unemployment insurance payments — that totaled hundreds of millions of dollars — going to to several groups of people who were by definition unqualified to receive them.
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“We have almost 25,000 who are over 115 years-old who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out…
…28,000 people between 1 and 5 years-old have collected fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million…
…10,000 who have not been born yet, 15 years into… pic.twitter.com/XupNNCVw9s
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“Unemployment insurance fraud — that trust needs to be whole for the American people,” DeRemer said. “When we need it, we need it for who deserves it. That’s not what we’re seeing in the numbers we saw last night, again, exposed by our partners at DOGE at the Department of Labor.”
“Since 2020, over $400 million of payments have gone out already,” she continued. “And when you hear these numbers — apparently in the United States we have over — almost 25,000 who are over 115 years-old who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out to people. Talk about fraudulent behavior.”
“Mr. President, 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old have collected fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million has gone out,” she added. “And lastly, 10,000 who have not been born yet, 15 years into the future, $69 million, and they haven’t even been born yet.”
“In one case, they will be born 129 years from now. The United States sent them $41,000,” DeRemer said. “And they’re not born yet. So, under the Department of Labor, those are the things that we’re uncovering. I couldn’t be more honored to tell the American people that we’re bringing back their dollars and were saving them — returning them to the United States Treasury.”
DOGE has also recently uncovered the fact that millions of non-citizens were given Social Security Numbers during President Joe Biden’s administration — and that a number of them had registered to vote and had voted in American elections.
