If I followed Fed161 correctly, the people over 112, are not necessarily receiving benefits, but their SSNs haven’t been inactivated.

Does anyone check to see if people over 100 are still working?

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Why a new thread?

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
If I followed Fed161 correctly, the people over 112, are necessarily receiving benefits, but their SSNs haven’t been inactivated.

Does anyone check to see if people over 100 are still working?

That was not my understanding. As I understood what he said, if folks *are receiving benefits* and reach 100 years old, there is an in person verification.

If the folks are *not* receiving benefits, then the folks at SSA do not do any verification of whether or not the person associated with that SSN is still alive or not.

As an example, if some who was forty years old and working, paying into Social Security and had a Social Security Number was killed in some accident in 1947, ten years after the system implemented and the SSA was not notified for whatever reason, that SSN would still show eligible. However, that person would not be receiving benefits. They would show an eligible SSN and would appear to be 117 or 118 depending on their birthdate (after or before today), but they would not be receiving benefits.

I'll be interested to see how this happens.
My understanding is that when you die and a death certificate is issued, SS and maybe other government agencies are notified.
I can understand how some number could slip through the cracks, especially in earlier times when it was real paper pushers doing this, but it should have been a simple process to fix in more recent times.
Also, Social Security didn't even start until 1935 so why the real old ones?

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
I'll be interested to see how this happens.
My understanding is that when you die and a death certificate is issued, SS and maybe other government agencies are notified.
I can understand how some number could slip through the cracks, especially in earlier times when it was real paper pushers doing this, but it should have been a simple process to fix in more recent times.
Also, Social Security didn't even start until 1935 so why the real old ones?

To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. Data entry screw ups are a real thing. If you don't take the time and effort to validate *all* the data in the database, not just the data on beneficiaries, you are going to have these kind of errors. Whether or not it is worth spending the effort to validate all the data depends on the cost and one's level of OCD. Personally, I lean toward the OCD side, but I have no idea how much more that would cost.

Wonder if some made-up SS numbers people put on false ID papers might have randomly happened to be the same as some oldsters' numbers?