Declaring somebody on the “dead list” for Social Security and the U.S. Government can have quite devastating consequences for those put there by mistake or purposely wrongly - locking them out of financial accounts, stopping Social Security payments and deleting their credit record. With DOGE skipping many steps that were safeguards against errors, this problem is becoming more common. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/dead-social-security-doge-musk/
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