Did you hear this news that just under $100 million was going to dead people has been stopped? What? The legacy media didn’t report the news? Shocker!
The Treasury Department has blocked nearly $100 million in taxpayer money from going to dead people. The Treasury found the problem using its new government-wide payment verification process last year. The New York Post has learned.
They now have new safeguards.
4,900 disbursements to the dead so far
The department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service discovered the money set to go to ghosts after a review of an eye-popping 885 million payments worth a total of nearly $2.7 trillion.
Since March 2025, the screening has identified more than 4,900 disbursements, worth approximately $99 million, associated with deceased payees, according to the Treasury.
The $99 million figure is a tiny fraction (0.0036%) of the $2.7 trillion the department reviewed as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on waste, fraud and abuse, but more than triple what Treasury discovered going to the deceased in the days before President Trump took office last year.
The money was returned to the originating federal agencies for review.
The effort relies in part on Treasury’s expanded access to the Social Security Administration’s Full Death Master File, which contains death information used to identify potentially ineligible recipients before payments are issued. Congress initially gave Treasury temporary access to the database under a three-year pilot program authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Treasury projected the program would produce about $330 million in net benefits from 2024 through 2026 by reducing improper payments, according to Fox News.
They are looking at a potential $500 billion. That’s 500,000 millions. That’s a lot of money.
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent has just found $100 MILLION IN FRAUDULENT PAYMENTS that would’ve otherwise gone to deceased people
Bessent says there might be $500 BILLION in total fraud 🤯🤯
If the Biden admin were still in power, the $100M would’ve been PAID AND… pic.twitter.com/7hcLjRpooK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 21, 2026
