Your government has recovered $31 million.

Just a drop in the bucket when you consider it all.

But it was $31 million in Social Security payments that had been mistakenly paid to dead people.

Oh.

Yeah.

So this recovery was part of a five-month pilot program, and it was initiated after Congress granted the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration's full death master file.

It's like something out of a Bond movie, doesn't it? Boy, doesn't that sound ominous? It's the, I need the full death master's file. It's like something out of a Bond movie, doesn't it?

Boy, doesn't that sound ominous?

It's the, I need the full death master file.

Yeah.

So they were given access to this database, and it contained over 142 million records, dating back to 1899.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

And they found that, well, whoops, your government made a mistake to the tune of $31 million.

They're saying that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Yeah.

And they project that they will recover over $215 million during a three-year period.

Yeah. So you hit the nail in the head, which is this is some pilot program.

And, you know, they found $31 million over three years, so it's $10 million a year, basically, that they were finding.

And I think about what's actually out there.

I mean, let's go back to COVID.

The billions upon billions of waste, fraud and abuse dollars that have been proven.

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