Nope. There are no 150-year-olds on Social Security. It's COBOL!--UPDATED Feb 15

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL

Elon Musk claimed that his team found 150-year-old people collecting Social Security! He implied there were dead people being sent benefits, with checks cashed by someone else. 

But no—the people getting paid are very much alive.  They are collecting their own benefits.  They’re not committing fraud. They’re just not 150 years old, of course.

So what happens if Social Security doesn’t know a birthdate?  That field is empty in its records.  Thus that person appears to have a birthday of May 20 1875—about 150 years ago.