The Department of Government Efficiency announced early Tuesday that it had found more than 12,000,000 people in the Social Security Database who were 120 years old and older.

DOGE announced an update to its website that 3.2 million of those people have now been marked as deceased.

The announcement stated, “In the last two weeks, SocialSecurity began a major cleaning of their records. Around 3.2 million number-holders have been marked as dead. There is still more work to be done.”

The DOGE post showed that the database contained a count of people who were alive on 8 March:

  • There are 3,467,066 people between the ages of 120 and 129.
  • There are 3,929,750 people between the ages of 130 and 139.
  • 3,48746 people between the ages of 140 and 149
  • There are 1,357,967 people between the ages of 150 and 159.

As of Monday, 3,261,057 people were marked as deceased.

DOGE, led by Elon Musk, a billionaire, was tasked with streamlining the bureaucracy to reduce federal spending.

While critics complain about cuts to Social Security spending, President Donald Trump claims that his focus on entitlements is only related to “fraud and waste” and that he’ll protect the basic benefit program.

Musk called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.”

In a recent conversation, he stated that “most federal spending is entitlements”, citing Social Security as among the worst programs.

“So that’s the big one to eliminate,” Musk said. “That’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six, 700 billion.”

Chris LaCivita is a top advisor to Trump. He rejected the idea that DOGE would make drastic cuts to Social Security. LaCivita told Politico Friday that this was not Musk’s choice.

“Now they won’t cut social security.” They are not cutting Medicaid. LaCivita stated that this is just a fearmongering campaign by the left.

Musk claimed last month that millions of people over 100 years old could receive Social Security benefits.

Newsweek reported that the SSA has said those millions are referring to people who do not receive benefits, but “do not have a death date associated with their records.”

According to published statistics from the agency, approximately 53,000 Americans are centenarians.

According to its website, DOGE has saved $115 Billion through “assets sales, contract/lease renegotiations and cancellations, fraud, and improper payments deletion, grant cancellations. Interest savings, programmatic change, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”