Elon Musk 'uncovers' 20M in Social Security database over age 100 - here's why they're listed and don't get benefits | 17 Feb 2025 | Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to have uncovered "the biggest fraud in history" when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over 100 years old. "According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!" Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old. "Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," he joked, adding, "there are FAR more 'eligible' social security [sic] numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history." [As of July 2023], only 86,000 people living in the US at the time were actually centenarians, according to the Census Bureau.