By Jim Hᴏft of Gateway Pundit on Feb. 17, 2025
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database.
The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.”
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
The table Musk provided shows:
- Age 0-9: 38,825,456
- Age 10-19: 44,326,480
- Age 20-29: 47,995,478
- Age 30-39: 52,106,915
- Age 40-49: 47,626,581
- Age 50-59: 45,740,805
- Age 60-69: 46,381,281
- Age 70-79: 33,404,412
- Age 80-89: 15,165,127
- Age 90-99: 6,054,154
- Age 100-109: 4,734,407
- Age 110-119: 3,627,007
- Age 120-129: 3,472,849
- Age 130-139: 3,936,311
- Age 140-149: 3,542,044
- Age 150-159: 1,345,083
- Age 160-169: 121,807
- Age 170-179: 6,087
- Age 180-189: 695
- Age 190-199: 448
- Age 200-209: 879
- Age 210-219: 866
- Age 220-229: 1,039
- Age 240-249: 1
- Age 360-369: 1
As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that approximately 101,000 Americans are aged 100 and older, representing about 0.03% of the total U.S. population.
This group, known as centenarians, is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades, reaching around 422,000 by 2054, according to the Pew Research Center.