
“It is estimated that every year, some 12,200 very much alive U.S. citizens are declared dead by the Social Security Administration due to ‘keystroke errors.’ Those affected quite literally become a walking dead, unable to secure a job, make financial transactions, file taxes, or visit the doctor — and for months on end, must endure the nightmare of convincing a large bureaucracy that they haven’t yet bit the dust. An 83-year-old woman whose SSA checks were discontinued, and who was unable to purchase vital medications; A man who was fired from his job after a medical thief ‘left drug addiction and narcotic medications in his records’.”
http://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-be-declared-dead-by-the/
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