I may be wrong, but I thought it was the undertaker who reported it to SS.  My Dad died at age 60, on Thanksgiving Day 1972.  He had worked all his life, but hadn't yet claimed SS.  My Mom filed the necessary paperwork to claim the death benefit..(Isn't that a joke)..& I went with her to the local SS Office.  She rec'd the $255.00 if I am remembering correctly as this was 38 years ago. Seven months later my Mom died.  She never collected SS either as she was only 57 & still working. My Dad was never in SSDI.  I just figured it was because he never collected SS, being  the reason why he wasn't on the SSDI. Jeanine NJ   ________________________________ From: cathy hatcher <cathhat@yahoo.com> To: ny-irish@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, February 5, 2010 5:21:10 PM Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] [NYC-ROOTS] SS & providing DC Regarding attempts to claim any SS money due after a death: there is a time limit. When I found out my estranged grandfather's date of death, 1945, which was never reported to SS, they let me know there was a statute of limitation on collecting--I don't recall the length specifically: maybe ten years? I was SO over the limit that it did not stick with me. --- On Fri, 2/5/10, MizScarlettNY@aol.com <MizScarlettNY@aol.com> wrote: From: MizScarlettNY@aol.com <MizScarlettNY@aol.com> Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] [NYC-ROOTS] SS & providing DC To: nyc-roots@rootsweb.com, NY-IRISH@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 10:37 AM In the Social Security system, a family member is supposed to inform them when a death occurs. You can read this on their homepage. If a family does not, nor claims their weasly burial fee, they have no proof of death. Their system only shows that the person is no longer employed and contributing to the system.  So, if you have an ancestor who died in the past thirty years [when typewritten death certificates are the norm], who and does not appear on the SSDI, the immediate family memer did not report it. You can take family death certificates, for ancestors who contributed to their system, to your local Social Security Office and they will update their database. A friend of mine went to the local Social Security Office and found that no one claimed the death benefit for his father in 1966.  He tried to claim it but was rejected, as it was to go to a living spouse. Barb NYC Researcher IHR, GGG ======================== irenersalazar@comcast.net writes: > In that case, is your money returned?  -Irene ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website.  Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry:  http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message       ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website.  Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry:  http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message