DOGE Wrongly Declared Elderly Man Dead Causing Bank to Take Thousands From His Account: 'Take It Up With Social Security'

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have claimed that an alarming number of deceased persons are receiving Social Security benefits, requiring a team devoted solely to correcting erroneous payments. Those efforts resulted in at least one man, who is still alive, being incorrectly marked as deceased by the Social Security Administration. (Credit: Joseph Prezioso/Getty Images)

An 82-year-old Seattle man had over $5,000 in benefits withdrawn from his account after the Social Security Administration declared him dead.

The issue with the bank's withdrawal, initiated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is that the man, Leonard "Ned" Johnson, is still very much alive.