Peter Alexander

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To be clear, that $71 billion was from 2015 to 2022, so it wasn't in just one year. $71 billion. But it wasn't in one year, just over multiple years, from 2015 to 2022.

You said that they have found before that they believe there have been tens of millions of people who were receiving money who are dead on the Social Security list. The same report that you referred to said that almost none of those individuals are receiving money.

And I'm saying the IG report.