NewsMaxMoney reports that President Trump announced that about 275,000 illegal immigrants and tens of thousands of people over 160 years old have been removed from the Social Security database, stopping fraudulent payments. He credited his administration for strengthening the system and criticized the Biden administration for mismanaging Social Security, citing long wait times and backlogs. Under Trump’s leadership, wait times and backlogs have reportedly decreased, and seniors now have improved 24/7 online access to their accounts. They write:
President Donald Trump said Thursday that approximately 275,000 illegal immigrants have been purged from the Social Security database, as well as tens of thousands more beneficiaries over the age of 160 who were still receiving checks. […]
“Field office wait times are now down 30% since last year, and it looks like it’s going to [reach] a total record number. … Wait times are down 73% while serving twice as many customers per day. The disability claims backlog is down 26%, and seniors now have 24/7 online access to their accounts, which they never had before. Whereas under Biden, the website was down 29 hours a week for maintenance purposes.
“It was not open very much. They were always maintaining it, but they didn’t know what the hell they were doing.”
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