On 6/7/2011 12:03 AM, D. Stussy wrote: > "Wes Groleau"<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote in message > news:isk8bc$qic$1@dont-email.me... >> On 06-06-2011 17:21, D. Stussy wrote: >>> "Gerry"<everyday@sunrise.net> wrote in message >>> news:everyday-B63E89.14155806062011@news.eternal-september.org... >>>> In article<isjcuf$82t$1@snarked.org>, >>>> "D. Stussy"<spam+newsgroups@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote: >>>>> "Wes Groleau"<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote in message >>>>> news:isif9d$nnn$2@dont-email.me... >>>>>> On 06-06-2011 07:37, Gene Y. wrote: >>>>>>> On 6/5/2011 11:15 PM, sharonf wrote: >>>>>>>> Why would someone who had a social security number and is now >>> deceased >>>>>>>> not show up anywhere in the SS death index? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If he never drew a SS benefit and no one reported his death to the >>> SS >>>>>>> offices, he would not show up. >>>>>> >>>>>> If he did draw a benefit, and SSA did not learn of the death, >>>>>> he would not show up. >>>>> >>>>> That doesn't make sense - as that would imply that his benefit >>> continues >>>>> today, and that's a felony. >>>> >>>> And you don't think this happens? >>> >>> Not anymore as all county coroners now report deaths to SSA (or their >>> electronic systems that issue death certificates do that for them). >> >> Was that the case when this guy died in 1992? >> >> Can the county coroner force a paranoid widow to reveal the SSN ? > > All I can say is this: > 1) There's a space for it on death certificates. > 2) If she ever filed a tax return, she has the number. Even > married-separate returns required identifying the spouse's SSN. > > I was given what I was told was her social security number, but when I search under that nothing comes up either.