More than 12 million people aged 120 and older were found to be listed in the Social Security database, the Department of Government Efficiency reported early Tuesday.
Of that total, roughly 3.2 million people now have been marked as being deceased, DOGE said with an update on its website.
“For the past two weeks, @SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records,” the announcement said. “Approximately 3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.”
The DOGE post showed the database included a living count on March 8 of:
3,467,066 people aged 120-129
3,929,750 people aged 130-139
3,548,746 people aged 140-149
1,357,967 people aged 150-159
As of Monday, 3,261,057 of that overall number had been marked as being deceased.