Since taking on the monumental task of rooting out waste and fraud in the federal government, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency has made a great deal of progress. Total: $150 Billion Dollars Saved Dollar Savings per Taxpayer: $931.68 — DOGE Savings Tracker (@DogeLiveTracker) April 9, 2025 One recent discovery was so outrageous that even Musk himself could hardly believe it. An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed… — Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025 The following transcript might make it easier to read the information in the post above: An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following: – 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits – 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits – 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k. As Fox Business reported: The Labor Department confirmed that millions of dollars in unemployment insurance went to fraudulent recipients identified by DOGE. “This is another incredible discovery by the DOGE team, finding nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told FOX Business. “The Labor Department is committed to recovering Americans’ stolen tax dollars. We will catch these thieves and keep working to root out egregious fraud – accountability is here.” DOGE has conducted similar efforts in Social Security to root out numberholders from databases who are listed as age 120 or older. The group said it has marked 9.9 million Social Security numberholders listed as age 120 or older as deceased, with about 2 million to go as of late March. Here’s how Musk reacted to the development: Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future! This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in. https://t.co/U5qqcyUgzo — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025 Of course, these fraudulent claims are just drops in the bucket compared to the billions in waste already discovered by DOGE: New @DOGE findings, this time it’s $5.1 billion. pic.twitter.com/vHRnDHZSUS — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) April 10, 2025 As The Hill reported, DOGE recently scored a win in court that could allow its researchers to root out even more fraud: A New York federal judge has partially walked back a ruling blocking President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive payment data at the Treasury Department. U.S. District Judge Jeanette A. Vargas in a late-Friday opinion gave one DOGE staffer permission to access sensitive payment information at the Treasury Department. The worker, identified as Ryan Wunderly, will have to undergo the same training as other federal employees. Wunderly will also be required to submit a financial disclosure report under the updated preliminary injunction. The decision comes after a group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, sued the Trump administration in February asserting DOGE’s access to the financial data was an invasion of privacy. In the lawsuit, the officials contended that political appointees should not have access to the records, which include Social Security and bank account numbers. And here’s some additional coverage of the recent DOGE discovery: