Elon Musk's control of a federal payment system is raising concerns about funding for programs like Social Security and the safety of personal data.

Musk now has access to the US Treasury payment system, which handles Social Security checks. Will your check be on time? Will your data be safe?

Tesla founder Elon Musk was named head of the Department of Government Efficiency - a special commission tasked with slashing federal spending by Donald Trump

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments,

The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data,

Elon Musk's department now has control over government-provided benefits, including Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, unemployment and more.

The billionaire and his DOGE agents were granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.