"Joan Best" <joanbest@earthlink.net> wrote: > > 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. I'll take your word for it, but I am hard pressed to believe that a person's benefits would be severed on the basis of a piece of mail with "deceased" being written on it. There has to be much more to the story. For instance, why would the SSA even see that piece of mail - unless, of course, the legally required change of address was not made. Further, I am astonished to learn that we have government employees so dense that when a person presents himself with proper identification that this employee wouldn't accept the fact that he is alive. Or is that process the "quite a bit" it took to get him back among the living? Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>