Social Security Mistakenly Reports Thousands of Deaths

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Social Security Mistakenly Reports Thousands of Deaths
by Blake Ellis
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

More Americans are being erroneously killed off by the Social Security Administration every day.

Of the approximately 2.8 million death reports the Social Security Administration receives per year, about 14,000 -- or one in every 200 deaths -- are incorrectly entered into its Death Master File, which contains the Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, death dates, zip codes and last-known residences of more than 87 million deceased Americans. That averages out to 38 life-altering mistakes a day.

While these errors occur online, in the depths of the administration's database, they have a very real impact on the people who have effectively been declared dead.

"Erroneous death entries can lead to benefit termination, cause severe financial hardship and distress to affected individuals, and result in the publication of living individuals' [personal identifying information] in the [Death Master File]," the Inspector General said in its most recent evaluation of the database.

Laura Brooks, of Spotsylvania, Va., discovered she had been declared dead when she stopped receiving her disability checks, and her rent and student loan payments unexpectedly bounced.

She went to her bank and a representative said her account had been closed because she was dead. Brooks, a 52-year old mother of two, was already on permanent disability because of a severe depressive disorder, so hearing this turned her already difficult world completely upside down.

The blind leading the blind.

36,657 Erroneous Deaths in Three Years

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ACORN will rise them from the grave to be registered voter in 012

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Yeah, they'll still vote Democrat.

Seriously, shit happens.  The way to prevent this is to have a giant interlocked Gvoernment database on everything about everybody, and nobody in their right mind wants to see that.  A level of error in stuff like this is the price of preserving whatever can be saved of individual liberty and identity in the information age.

And ol' Laura sounds like the poster-child for the entitlement lifestyle.