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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

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At least 10 people associated with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) are now working at the Social Security Administration .

This includes a number of young engineers whose presence at the SSA has not been reported.

The DOGE -affiliated personnel in question are currently listed in the agency’s internal organizational chart.

Deputy Commissioner of Human Resources filed an affidavit in a lawsuit against DOGE .

She said she was “not confident” that operatives had “the requisite knowledge and training to prevent sensitive information from being inadvertently transferred to bad actors’s.

The affidavit says SSA 's lead seemed fixated on conspiracy theories about fraud within the system.

The US DOGE Service is a rebranded rebranding of the US Digital Service .

The SSA has been accused of employing a team of young engineers linked to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company.

One of the operatives is a 25-year-old engineer who has read and write access to payment systems at the Treasury Department .