Totenkindly
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So if you want to know what happened at Social Security Administration in mid-February (at least, from one of the execs before it was taken over -- here is her affidavit, which means she's legally liable for any mistruth), here you go.
(I attached it to the post -- if it doesn't show up, I'll see about finding a more easily linked copy.)
It gels with my observations but disturbs me more, with how it heavily implicates Russo who is the new CIO in charge of systems.
Also, if you are curious about some of the accusations against SSA, there is explanation in the affidavit about them and why they seem to not be data-driven. It also explains how big a deal the protection of Personally Identifying Information (PII) is for the agency and the safeguards that were completely overrun.
If you're interested about SSNs, basically you have claims that a claimant (the person making the claim) makes against their own number, but there are also benefits where the claimant will be making them on the Number Holder (like widow/widowers -- the spouse is making a claim on their deceased spouse's SSN, who is the Number Holder; or perhaps one of a few types of child claims where the parent is the Number Holder, etc). The claim includes both numbers (Number Holder and Claimant) so you can tell who is receiving the benefit but on whose account the benefit is based. The claim process is complex, and you have to understand what the various claims are and what they are based on, or you will misunderstand what you're looking at -- very much like when people looked at the Numident (which is the master file of everyone who has had an SSN) and assumed wrongly that all of those people are receiving benefits (which is such an easy mistake to remedy with just one or two questions). There are other files like the MBR (T2) and the SSR (T16) that actually have the records of who is receiving what payments.
(I attached it to the post -- if it doesn't show up, I'll see about finding a more easily linked copy.)
It gels with my observations but disturbs me more, with how it heavily implicates Russo who is the new CIO in charge of systems.
Also, if you are curious about some of the accusations against SSA, there is explanation in the affidavit about them and why they seem to not be data-driven. It also explains how big a deal the protection of Personally Identifying Information (PII) is for the agency and the safeguards that were completely overrun.
If you're interested about SSNs, basically you have claims that a claimant (the person making the claim) makes against their own number, but there are also benefits where the claimant will be making them on the Number Holder (like widow/widowers -- the spouse is making a claim on their deceased spouse's SSN, who is the Number Holder; or perhaps one of a few types of child claims where the parent is the Number Holder, etc). The claim includes both numbers (Number Holder and Claimant) so you can tell who is receiving the benefit but on whose account the benefit is based. The claim process is complex, and you have to understand what the various claims are and what they are based on, or you will misunderstand what you're looking at -- very much like when people looked at the Numident (which is the master file of everyone who has had an SSN) and assumed wrongly that all of those people are receiving benefits (which is such an easy mistake to remedy with just one or two questions). There are other files like the MBR (T2) and the SSR (T16) that actually have the records of who is receiving what payments.
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