Musk's 'illegal' meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday accused billionaire Elon Musk of sabotaging her constituents' access to their Social Security benefits.

Writing on BlueSky, Warren revealed that she's been "hearing from Social Security recipients in MA who’ve been marked as 'not currently receiving payments,' on the Social Security website" despite the fact that they have never been marked as such in the past.

"Social Security is something you are legally entitled to," Warren added. "Elon's attack on Social Security is illegal—and it's hurting people."

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It's unclear why beneficiaries would suddenly start receiving messages telling them that they are not receiving their payments, although Wired reported recently that many insiders at the Social Security Administration have been alarmed by a Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency project to completely rebuild the codebase used by the Social Security Administration in a matter of mere months.

According to experts who spoke with Wired, the effort to migrate the SSA's database from the COBOL programming language to a more modern language such as Java.

Experts who spoke with Wired said that this kind of operation is fraught with peril and could trigger what the publication describes as a "system collapse" if not done with the utmost care.