Discussion for article #234318
GOP/Teatrolls: “Awesome, more problems we can refuse to fix…or perhaps even exploit to break SS further.”
Getting those records fixed could cost serious money. Speaking as someone who has done the notarized death certificate thing for parents. (And it gets even more fun because someone, somewhere is bound to have that social security number on file and be using it to identify the dead person years later.)
The records are more incomplete than they are flawed.
The agency has a standard of evidence for putting a number on the Death Master File [too good of a name not to be borrowed for other uses], and it doesn’t have the evidence it needs in many cases.
The problem will get fixed a few years from now when a review of records reveals that there suddenly are 2 million Americans over the age of 120 retired and collecting Social Security benefits from their homes in Russia.