The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered millions of dollars in federal unemployment benefits that were paid to people who haven’t even been born yet.
An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed…— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025
Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer highlighted some of DOGE’s findings during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump. DeRemer noted that, in partnership with DOGE, the Labor Department had found fraudulent unemployment insurance payments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, all of which went to people clearly unqualified to receive them — including people over the age of 115, toddlers, and people whose date of birth was listed as a date in the future.
The oldest living American is 114 years old, so it is safe to say that anyone 115 or older is collecting “unemployment” due to being dead.
There was no sanity check for impossibly young or impossibly old people for unemployment insurance. https://t.co/UjlBk2KQIu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025
“Unemployment insurance fraud — that trust needs to be whole for the American people,” DeRemer explained. “When we need it, we need it for who deserves it. That’s not what we’re seeing in the numbers we saw last night, again, exposed by our partners at DOGE at the Department of Labor.”
“Since 2020, over $400 million of payments have gone out already,” she added. “And when you hear these numbers — apparently in the United States we have over — almost 25,000 who are over 115 years-old who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out to people. Talk about fraudulent behavior.”
“Mr. President, 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old have collected fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million has gone out,” DeRemer continued. “And lastly, 10,000 who have not been born yet, 15 years into the future, $69 million, and they haven’t even been born yet.”
She went on to highlight one specific case, noting that the person “will be born 129 years from now” — yet the U.S. government “sent them $41,000.”
“And they’re not born yet,” DeRemer added. “So, under the Department of Labor, those are the things that we’re uncovering. I couldn’t be more honored to tell the American people that we’re bringing back their dollars and were saving them — returning them to the United States Treasury.”
🚨HOLY FRAUD🚨
"We have almost 25,000 who are over 115 years-old who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out…
…28,000 people between 1 and 5 years-old have collected fraudulent payments at the tune of $254 million…
…10,000 who have not been born yet, 15 years into… pic.twitter.com/XupNNCVw9s
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 10, 2025
While there could be simple explanations for the people listed as one to five years old — such as an individual mistakenly inputting the date they filed for unemployment in the “date of birth” section on the form — the fact is that all of these fraudulent payments should have been flagged by the system or by government employees. If the issue was simply a mistake, the form should have been rejected for the error and the person would have had the opportunity to correct it. Thus, the fact that none of these fraudulent payments were flagged means that the government is either woefully incompetent or was perfectly content wasting American taxpayer dollars, or both.
