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2025-03-12 23:57:59 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The Social Security Administration says that there were 68,455,973 social security beneficiaries as of Dec. 31, 2024. https://x.com/waltywang/status/1899960277468160498 https://web.archive.org/web/20250308001424/https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASDIbenies.html 394M includes many who don’t receive benefits (e.g., died outside the U.S., issued numbers for temporary work in the U.S. before leaving the U.S., etc.). https://web.archive.org/web/20250309204152/https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/online-posts-misconstrue-data-on-social-security-numbers/

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• The Social Security Administration says that there were 68,455,973 social security beneficiaries as of Dec. 31, 2024. https://x.com/waltywang/status/1899960277468160498 https://web.archive.org/web/20250308001424/https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASDIbenies.html 394M includes many who don’t receive benefits (e.g., died outside the U.S., issued numbers for temporary work in the U.S. before leaving the U.S., etc.). https://web.archive.org/web/20250309204152/https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/online-posts-misconstrue-data-on-social-security-numbers/