My father died in Manteca in California, just having moved days before from Ardmore, Oklahoma. I had body moved to Santa Cruz and on the SSDI,both last residence and last benefit were listed as Santa Cruz. He did put in mail forwarding to Manteca but not Santa Cruz and had not lived in Santa Cruz for 9 years. Suz In a message dated 9/14/2006 6:46:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Technically speaking (having worked for Social Security) the SSDI county of record represents the last mailing address of the beneficiary under the "last benefit" column. A posting of both the "last residence" column + "last benefit" address occurs if the the mailing address differed from the residence address. The difference usually related to the use of a PO Box or possibly an "in care of" address. With the advent of direct deposit in 1974 the presumption that the town/county posted for either column is actually the town/county/state where the person died definitely cannot be made. Payments directed to a bank prior to direct deposit were by paper under a power of attorney arrangement -- a somewhat rare event. This would also explain different addresses under the 2 address columns. Of course, as Mary says, no one necessarily dies where they live or where their mail goes.

You got me on this one. I could speculate on the cause, but it would only underline the fact that the SSDI is not a definitive source for the "actual" place of death. [email protected] wrote: My father died in Manteca in California, just having moved days before from Ardmore, Oklahoma. I had body moved to Santa Cruz and on the SSDI,both last residence and last benefit were listed as Santa Cruz. He did put in mail forwarding to Manteca but not Santa Cruz and had not lived in Santa Cruz for 9 years. Suz In a message dated 9/14/2006 6:46:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Technically speaking (having worked for Social Security) the SSDI county of record represents the last mailing address of the beneficiary under the "last benefit" column. A posting of both the "last residence" column + "last benefit" address occurs if the the mailing address differed from the residence address. The difference usually related to the use of a PO Box or possibly an "in care of" address. With the advent of direct deposit in 1974 the presumption that the town/county posted for either column is actually the town/county/state where the person died definitely cannot be made. Payments directed to a bank prior to direct deposit were by paper under a power of attorney arrangement -- a somewhat rare event. This would also explain different addresses under the 2 address columns. Of course, as Mary says, no one necessarily dies where they live or where their mail goes. ************************** Visit SFGenealogy.com! http://www.sfgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message