They removed 3 million last week and I had the same question, but my guess is now that they've removed another 7 million, that there's a process behind the scenes each "persons" file has to go through before it can be marked removed, which is why they aren't just removing them all in one fell swoop. Cross referencing other databases with the names, stopping checks, who knows what else.
The whole "not being marked as deceased" thing really throws a wrench into the excuse given for this prior of "they leave it up so that any files that link to this aren't left dead later." Because you could do that easily and still mark them as dead to prevent any fraud from happening.
But since they didn't do even that basic amount of bookkeeping work, that means there was absolutely a large amount of fraud happening and they just couldn't care enough to take 2 seconds of work to prevent it.
So, NOT just a confusion with the COBOL programming language, eh? The media should report on that sometime
Why are there still close to a million 150+ people?
They removed 3 million last week and I had the same question, but my guess is now that they've removed another 7 million, that there's a process behind the scenes each "persons" file has to go through before it can be marked removed, which is why they aren't just removing them all in one fell swoop. Cross referencing other databases with the names, stopping checks, who knows what else.
Early on when this came out, Musk said that the data is kept on paper records in some cave with an antiquated mechanical elevator system that can only pull a fairly low amount of records at a time. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14391077/limestone-pennsylvania-elon-musk-doge-retirement.html
It could be a contract that is for a deceased person, but someone is legally being paid from it.
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The whole "not being marked as deceased" thing really throws a wrench into the excuse given for this prior of "they leave it up so that any files that link to this aren't left dead later." Because you could do that easily and still mark them as dead to prevent any fraud from happening.
But since they didn't do even that basic amount of bookkeeping work, that means there was absolutely a large amount of fraud happening and they just couldn't care enough to take 2 seconds of work to prevent it.