The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts & credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing #SocialSecurity’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 govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.

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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 & spend money.

The initial names are limited to people the #Trump admin claims are convicted criminals & “suspected terrorists,” docs show. But ofcls said the effort could broaden to include others in the country w/o authorization.

Their “financial lives,” Leland Dudek, #SocialSecurity Admin acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff, would be “terminated.”