The administration adding fully-alive people to the Social Security “death file” in order to make their lives unlivable should be the mother of all red lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/1…

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and more easily spend money.
Dan Sinker @dansinker