Honestly, I don't really give a shit if the raw numbers are off, as long as the actual payments going out are going to deserving people. So far all he's posted is some fucked up excel numbers to catch headlines, and he needs to provide some actual, in depth audit numbers for who is receiving the money and how much. Frankly I'm tired of the political points scoring and posturing, do the fucking audits.
I don't know. The SSA isn't responsible for tracking the population of the United States, so I imagine there's plenty of people on the SSA books that are dead and nobody bothered to send in a death certificate.
Given that the tweet simply reported that these were the age ranges in the database where there is the equivalent of a ("Dead=False" ) field when one might expect the opposite, I'm not going to panic for now. Without context, it could be the case some of these records don't have a DOB, some may be records that simply don't belong and were left intact versus being physically deleted, or dummy data for testing purposes to make sure someone who was alive before social security existed that somehow got input into the system never receives a single check.
If it's discovered someone who should be recorded as dead or otherwise
not be receiving a check is receiving one, then that's a problem to address ASAP. I can't speak how the process worked before electronic data transmission, but a relative that died in the internet era had their death reported to the SSA before the surviving spouse could call them later that same week.
And we're allegedly one of the most technologically advanced nations on the planet. Really makes you think, don't it?
From what I've been told, the government computer systems are so antiquated, the intercommunication between different systems/departments is either inefficient at best or impossible at worst because the computers lack a common protocol that can be used for information exchange - often leaving users to rely on sneakernet to move the information back and forth.
Further complicating matters is the time, money, and hassle associated with upgrading systems with massively large quantities of data, especially when the old format is functionally obsolete and would need to be replaced with a new format. Even the best upgrade process can have some data either go unconverted or get corrupted when it's run against live/production data - a big deal and concern with real-time systems.
Very little unless he blatantly lied about his income to an astronomical tune. I talked to a cpa about it and ended up doing basically the same thing that I remember Rekieta/Beard describing. Obviously take Rekieta's financial advice with a shaker of salt but Beard's actual specialty is dealing with finance/contract law and it lined up with my cpa's advice
Anyone who followed all the rules regarding the PPP application process and distribution of funds should have no problems with the payback or forgiveness process (protip: Save all the relevant receipts and records). Part of the problem came with all the shady fly-by-night PPP companies that promised businesses the full amount per employee while cutting corners or committing outright fraud during the application process only to go out of business shortly thereafter and leave those same clients holding the bag when the government started asking questions or examining their applications in greater detail.
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Protesters are in front of Long Beach City Hall for the nationwide “Not My President’s Day” protest on Monday. (Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times)
All these bougie scumbags deserve aggressive bowel cancer. I hope all the bad things in life happen to them and only them.
