Elon Musk's group found many wrong payments for people without jobs.

But there is a problem. The police found this same bad plan before, a long time ago. And it was much bigger then.

DOGE said they checked jobless money since 2020. They found strange things. Very old people, very young children, and people not born yet got money from the government.

People had different ideas about the tweet. Some did not believe it. Some were happy. Musk read it many times because it was very surprising.

He said that the numbers were very bad.

But Chavez-DeRemer can look at her department's office. This office found problems. Government workers told them about the problems.

Some people say the government is not good. They say the government did not see some problems. But they found problems that were already known.

A law from 1935 started help for people without jobs.

But extra money from the government during COVID helped many people.

Before COVID, some places helped people without jobs well, some okay, and some not well. When many people lost jobs because of COVID, the help in many places was very bad.

Trump made a law to help people without jobs. But some bad people used it to get money they should not have.

The paper said states can make a 'fake claim'. This shows the bad thing but does not link it to people who did nothing wrong.

Some claims for money were fake.

The report says many claims were not real. They were not for people older than 100.

The government worker did not answer questions about what Mr. Musk found. DOGE did not say how it found the problem.

DOGE looked for a long time. It found only $382 million in fake claims. This was a small amount. The police knew about much more fake claims.

In 2022, the government said people took too much money. It was maybe $100 to $135 billion.

Amy Traub says, "Many people know this already. The news has talked about it a lot. People have also talked about it in important meetings in the government."

These new claims about DOGE are like old claims. The old claims said money went to people who died or were very old. But the old claims were not true.

DOGE is not good at telling people things, even about bad things like people lying about jobs.

Jessica Reidl writes many articles about saving government money.

When DOGE says very old dead people get money from the government, I don't believe him. DOGE is not good at saying true things about that.

Traub said states stopped some old fake claims.

People who work with money say it might be hard to find jobs soon. This makes people worry about help for people who lose their jobs.