Social Security tried to assign fake death dates to 2.7M people: Whistleblower

[Jilly_in_VA]

17. Back around 1994

I went to see a home health patient who had all manner of disabilities (I won't bore you with them here, but trust me, she had 'em in spades, starting with diabetes). I asked her how she was and she said, "Pretty good, for a dead woman," and cackled fit to kill. I looked at her like she'd lost her mind, but that was one disability she didn't have. Then her daughter pulled out a letter from the Social Security Administration. It appeared that they'sd gotten her mixed up with someone else of the same name, born in the same year. So yeah, it happened even then. I immediately called our social worker, who jetted up there and started untangling the mess, but it was awhile before poor Mrs. H. got her benefits straightened out..... So even then.......