Social Security payments to those who exceed "maximum reasonable life expectancies"

[Hawkwin]

In case you have yet to read this:

Wired: No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits

"Computer programmers quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud, but rather the result of a weird quirk of the Social Security Administration’s benefits system, which was largely written in COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language that undergirds SSA’s databases as well as systems from many other US government agencies . . . . . . Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The mo…

Musk, much like Trump, appears to have mastered this bit of misdirection*. Make an outrageous claim that is untrue with no supporting evidence, and then let the media try and disprove them wrong - too many news cycles later for them masses to follow, or care.

*See “They’re eating the dogs.”