Elon Musk’s DOGE team has uncovered a startling irregularity in the U.S. Social Security database, revealing an implausible number of centenarians—over 25 million Americans reportedly aged 100 or older, with some listed as being older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Late Sunday night, Musk shared his discovery on X, posting a table of ages and jokingly suggesting that the Social Security Administration (SSA) might be paying 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 listed staggering figures, including nearly 4.7 million individuals supposedly between the ages of 100 and 109. More shockingly, it reported over 3.9 million people aged 130-139 and even a single person listed in the 360-369 age range.
The numbers quickly sparked widespread skepticism and concerns about government inefficiencies, particularly within entitlement programs.
As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that roughly 101,000 Americans were aged 100 or older, accounting for just 0.03% of the total population. Pew Research Center projects this number to quadruple to around