No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting #SocialSecurity Benefits
#Musk claims to have found rampant #fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
#COBOL does not have a date type, implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/
https://archive.ph/uL7g8