Are they going to tell you to your face that you're actually dead?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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If I were the OP, I'd find the nearest Social Security office, make an appointment, and go there with all you ID documents. They really can't claim your dead when your sitting across the desk from them with your photo DL and passport.

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IDK you might be surprised.

Get a sandwich board sign declaring that Social Security has declared you dead. Walk back and forth in front of the TV station. You will be noticed. Someone will talk to you for sure.

I think they would enjoy the creativity.

Gonna miss you!

Show them your REAL Gold Star I D. License!

Don’t need insurance any longer. Dead guys don’t pay!

I am no longer dead, Medicare has corrected the error. Of course there isn't any explanation of what caused this mess or how it was corrected. Blue Cross also has it corrected.

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
I am no longer dead...

Welcome back.

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I am no longer dead, Medicare has corrected the error

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Good for you. They made the error. Make sure it is corrected with Social Security.

I THOUGHT I had it cleared up back in February but the first of March it reared it's ugly head again.
SS listed me deceased (same DOD as medicare had in January) on Feb 23 so the crap started all over.
Hospital has admitted they screwed things up.
SS & medicare claim they are straightened out as of yesterday, 3/21.
Suppose to get my SS payment tomorrow but somehow SS made a payment today for almost $400.00 more then normal.
Guy at SS said "if things were easy the government wouldn't do it."

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Suppose to get my SS payment tomorrow but somehow SS made a payment today for almost $400.00 more then normal.

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Lucky you. Go on a spending spree.They will eventually catch it if it is an error. The social security payments can vary from year to year due to income and COLA. Just save your documents and be very happy the problem is not with the IRS.

Mrs. Flash did medical billing for a County Hospital for 10 years or so and once a fellow employee accidentally marked a client as disceasedd.

Took Mrs. Flash a long time to get SS and Medicare to agree that the client wasn't dead.

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:

I am no longer dead.

SIGforum members coming back from the grave. That's you, and ColoradoHunter, that I know of, to date.

Do we have any other members in that club?

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I’m not dead yet!

Yes you are.

Since they declared you dead, you should have applied for the ‘death benefit’ - I think it’s a whopping $900 which might buy a tank of gas

Not here to defend every government employee. I was one for 43 years. But I will say that in 43 years, I was aware of only one erroneous death case that was caused by a federal employee. The vast majority are caused by erroneous data entered by hospitals into Medicare billing systems. What is not true is if SSA directly gets a death report with an incorrect SSN, it automatically means that somebody is going to get killed off erroneously. There has to be a name match. SSA gets manual death reports from funeral directors. Say for example John Smith dies and the funeral director puts the wrong SSN on the form. To process the death report the SSA employee has to input the SSN and the name into the system. If there is no name match, the system spits out the input and doesn't process it. It flashes red and the employee knows immediately the SSN is wrong.

Data sharing agreements with SSA, Medicare, DOD, OPM, the VA, and a host of other agencies are the reason why an erroneous death case gets fixed, then "unfixed" a short while later. But they can be fixed. As you have read elsewhere here, a visit to SSA with ID is almost always necessary.

March 2024 update to old posting.

Just found out the IRS still has me listed as deceased.
Wife just was telling me that we never got our 2022 refund. It was suppose to be deposited in her checking account. 2an marriage for both of us, we share bill paying and I didn't know that we didn't get it back. She starting calling the IRS after a few months and they just asked a few questions and told her to call back in 30 days. Same thing over and over.
Fast forward to the 2023 refund, IRS rejected it. Tax accountant contacted the wife to tell us that I am listed as deceased.
She was able to call her contacts at IRS, they admit that the SS records show it was an error that was corrected in 2022 but the correction never got to the IRS.
Hopefully the accountant can get this cleared up.

Wonder if I will get any interest?

Way to resurrect a two-year old dead thread only to find out you're still dead.

Good luck on becoming undead again

Have you been giving the IRS SS witholding for 2 years? If so it was awful nice of them to have a different policy on accepting it versus refunding it.