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For 26 years after Mobile man’s death, $85,341 in Social Security checks kept coming
When Willis Edward Johnson’s father died in 1984, he tried informing the Social Security Administration and even attempted to close a bank account where the government deposited the retirement money. Except for a brief period in August 1988, the checks kept coming year after year after year – to the tune of more than $84,000. At some point, the Mobile man started spending the money. Read more…
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