Elon Musk's team says they found problems with money for people who lost their jobs.

But there is a problem. The police already found this same problem before. It was bigger and happened years ago.

DOGE said on X that some people got money from the government, but they were too old, too young, or not born yet.

People had different ideas about the tweet. Some people didn't believe it, and other people liked it. Elon Musk read it many times because he thought it was very strange.

He said the numbers are very bad, like a problem.

Chavez-DeRemer could see reports about this problem from people in her office.

They say the government is bad and does not find problems. But the government found the problems before.

In 1935, a law said states must help people who lose their jobs.

The government had special programs to help people when COVID started.

Sometimes states have problems with money for people without jobs. When COVID came, more states had big problems.

Trump gave money to people without jobs in 2020. Some bad people tried to take this money.

The paper said states can make a fake claim for people whose name was used to get money they should not get.

Some people got money, but they were too young or too old.

The paper says some old claims were not for very old people. They were fake claims from before.

The government person did not answer questions. They did not say how they found the problem. They did not say if it was already known.

DOGE looked at a longer time. It found $382 million in fake money claims. This was a small part of the money others knew about.

In 2022, the government said people took money for jobs. They took more than $45 billion. Later, another group said it was more. They took from $100 billion to $135 billion.

Amy Traub says, "Many people know this. We read about it in the news. People talked about it in government meetings."

DOGE said similar things before. They said some people got money for dead people and very old people. But this was not true. Now, DOGE says these things again.

So DOGE is not good for sending messages, even when bad things happen like money problems.

Jessica Reidl writes many articles about saving government money. She thinks some people get money from the government when they should not. But she does not think DOGE does a good job.

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

Traub said the fraud happened before. It was not new.

People are worried about losing jobs, so it is normal to think about not having a job.