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Wrongly Declared Dead: A Costly Social Security Mistake
News March 17, 2025 at 01:24 PM
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- SSA says less than one-third of 1% of the 3 million death reports it receives each year are erroneous.
- People who are wrongly declared dead can have their benefits clawed back and be disenrolled from Medicare.
- "Resolving these matters is taking longer than usual because of the mass layoffs at SSA," a Social Security advocate says.
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