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Mike Johnson: “One Social Security number can be assigned to dozens or…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 10:03

What I am saying is we have a moral responsibility to ensure that those programs are conducted in a way that does not allow for this massive fraud and abuse. And that's what he is finding. He's finding, for example, that One Social Security number can be assigned to dozens or maybe hundreds of people. so that every time there's a check distribution, it goes to all those different addresses. There was no safeguard in the existing software, the Social Security, to prevent that from happening. (10:03–10:08)

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