> Yes, indeed.. This is the government we are dealing with. There > have been quite a few stories of people having their social security > payments cut off because someone reported them dead and they were > not. I am not sure that, having straightened it out they would be > on the database, but it is definitely possible for someone to make > the database without actually dying!. > > Jane Hodges-Kuebler This happened to my son, who gets ss because of a disability, when some joker at an old address apparently wrote "deceased" on a piece of mail that was returned. We had to go through quite a bit to get him back among the living as far as ss was concerned. Joan B "Joan Best" <joanbest@earthlink.net>