A local man claims the Social Security Administration killed his wife. ...
[T]he Freeman's got on their computer to check their back account online only to find Nancy's disability check was reclaimed by Social Security.Then, they noticed hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees from the bank. They called the both bank and Social Security office who told them they reclaimed the check because Nancy Freeman is deceased. ...
According to Social Security, Nancy's been deceased since December 2009 ...
This is not even unusual. I now have two Social Security disability clients who are awaiting hearings on their cases who have been wrongly declared dead by Social Security in recent months. Does Social Security keep any stats on how many of these cases there are?
obviously not....unless congress asks them to..............
ReplyDeleteThe Dallas region does.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this would involve what SSA calls "resurection." It is common enough that any claims representative can tell you what it means.
ReplyDeleteThe erroneous death terminations we see are where the death was reported incorrectly via Medicare - usually directly after the individual was discharged from a hospital. We think it is where the hospital/rehab center miscodes the bill to Medicare.
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