Thursday, August 18, 2011

Social Security Mistakenly Declares Thousands Dead Each Year

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Could you be dead and not even know it? Bounced payments and missing government checks could be one sign that your Social Security number has been put to pasture even if you're still among the living.
About 14,000 people each year are wrongly declared deceased due to data-entry errors at the Social Security Administration, according to a CNNMoney story Wednesday. The government agency shared approximately 2.8 million death records with the Public Death Master File in 2010, but one in 200...

Social Security Mistakenly Declares Thousands Dead Each Year originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-08-17T14:30:00Z.

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