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About 12,200 People Are Erroneously Declared Dead Every Year by the U.S. Government
(By - Marissa Fessenden, www.smithsonianmag.com)
Part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal included the establishment of the Social Security Administration to tax Americans in order to support retired folks, and those in need of disability pay. The administration also issues numbers for individuals that now serve as national identification. But since 1980 it has another job: maintaining the Death Master File, a database of everyone with a social security number who has died. Read more…
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