More so because of co-President Musk. It's happened before Trump became president although between a much more understaffed agency and a focus on finding fraud and waste even imaginary fraud and waste that type of mistake is likely to become much more frequent.
Trump is doing his best to make the government much more dysfunctional and by the way despite co-President Musk's narrative the social security payment error rate is around one percent and that includes both overpayments and underpayments. https://www.cbpp.org/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-social-security Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays.
