{{Short description|Database of the US Social Security Administration}} '''Numident''', or "Numerical Identification System,"<ref>Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration, [http://www.ssa.gov/oig/ADOBEPDF/audittxt/A-15-05-15117.htm Performance Indicator Audit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605230846/http://www.ssa.gov/oig/ADOBEPDF/audittxt/A-15-05-15117.htm |date=2011-06-05 }}, 2005.</ref> is the [[Social Security Administration]]'s computer database file of an abstract of the information contained in an application for a United States [[Social Security number]] (Form SS-5). It contains the name of the applicant, place and date of birth, and other information. The Numident file contains all Social Security numbers since they first were issued in 1936.
== DOGE Social Security Records cleanup == In 2025, the [[Department of Government Efficiency]] participated in an effort to clean up Numident records that did not include a date of death. Initially, their announcements claimed that millions of people older than 110 years were fraudulently collecting Social Security benefits.<ref>{{cite web |title=Analyzing Musk's claim that '150-year-olds' are collecting Social Security payments |first1=Jack |last1=Izzo |first2=Grace |last2=Deng |date=February 18, 2025 |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-150-year-old-social-security/ |work=[[Snopes]] |access-date=2025-05-09}}</ref> However, it was later clarified by SSA that these are merely records of Social Security numbers issued to people whose death dates are not known, and who are not collecting any benefits.<ref>{{cite news |title=DOGE Cuts Update: 'Major Cleanup' of Social Security Nears Completion |date=April 25, 2025 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/doge-cuts-update-major-clean-social-security-death-records-2063996 |author=Aliss Higham |work=Newsweek |access-date=2025-05-09}}</ref>
On August 26, 2025, a whistleblower filed a complaint that DOGE had uploaded a live copy of Numident to an insecure cloud server.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Karanth |first=Sanjana |last2=Delaney |first2=Arthur |date=August 26, 2025 |title=DOGE Minions Created Dangerous Live Copy Of Social Security Data, Whistleblower Claims |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-minions-upload-social-security-whistleblower_n_68adebfee4b07bd4ac5e8c8c |access-date=August 26, 2025 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Death Master File]]
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