Elon Musk's team said some people got money from the government that was not for them.

There is a problem. Police found the same fraud before. It was bigger and happened years ago.

DOGE said on X that some people who were very old or very young got money from the government.

People online had different ideas about the tweet. Some people did not think it was true. Other people were happy about it. The person who wrote it said it was very strange.

He said that the numbers were not good.

But Chavez-DeRemer does not need to look far. Her department already said that workers reported this problem.

They say the government is bad and not smart. They say the government did not find problems, but they found them.

In 1935, a law said unemployed people can get money from the government. But states had to do the work.

States help people who don't have jobs. Sometimes the government gives more money, like when COVID started. This makes the system different.

Before COVID, there were some problems. With COVID, the problems became much bigger.

Trump made a law about money for people without work. It started in March 2020. But bad people tried to get the money by lying. The government said that the money program was a good place for bad people to try to get money. They used fake names and stolen ideas.

The paper said states can make a 'fake claim'. This is when someone uses another person's name to get money. But it keeps the real person's name safe.

Fake claims meant very old and very young people got money.

The memo says many claims were not for people over 100 years old. They were fake records of old bad claims.

A government person did not answer questions. DOGE did not say how they found the problem or if it was found before.

DOGE looked for a long time. It found $382 million in fake claims. This was a small number compared to what others knew.

In 2022, the government said people took too much money for unemployment. Some people say it was $45 billion. Other people say it was $100 billion or more.

Amy says, "Many people know this. People have talked about it a lot."

These new claims about money for dead people are like old false claims.

This makes DOGE not good, even if there was a problem like with job money.

Jessica Reidl writes many articles about stopping the government from wasting money.

When DOGE says many dead people get money from the government, I don't believe him, Reidl says. DOGE is often wrong about this.

Traub said states put in new security because of old problems.

People in business and money say the country might have a hard time, so people worry about not having a job. This is bad for a program that helps people, and maybe they want people to not like it when it is very important.