Wigged-out leftwing harridan Karen Tumulty got the lie-ball rolling:

Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty

SCOOP: Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service. Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions, by @hannah_natanson

Oh no! Cutting phone service! Seniors won't be able to get their checks!

A Democrat congressmen pushes the lie along:

Jared Moskowitz
@JaredEMoskowitz

Okay, I've seen some all time boneheaded plays but this takes the cake. Seniors are already waiting hours on the phone for social security , and you're gonna cut more phone agents or push seniors to the internet or AI?

The truth: Fraudsters use the phone lines to change the method of payment to seniors, sending their payments to their own accounts and stealing the money from the seniors (and also costing the government billions).

Musk and Trump want to require in-person appearances to have money diverted from the old bank account to the new one, because foreign fraudsters in India and Niger and Russia obviously aren't going to walk into a US office to perpetrate their fraud.

Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter

Jared is lying to you. The big change is they are not going to allow you to alter your routing number over the phone because people are defrauding Social Security recipients by calling in and changing how they get their direct payments. Thats the change. It�s pathetic how these people lie to you.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate

The Trump administration stopped social security bank routing numbers from being changed over the phone (because it's so easy to commit fraud), and journalists rushed to claim seniors couldn't make claims anymore.

Some might suggest you can't hate the press enough.

You don't hate the media and the left enough. But I repeat myself.