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Time to cleanup old social security data
A recent Social Security inspector general report showed that 6.5 million people in the U.S. may have reached age 112. In reality, there are only about 42 people known to be that old in the entire world. Of the 6.5 million with open social security numbers, only 13 are still getting Social Security benefits. You may have read about this story in your daily newspaper, or you may have seen it reported on the March 15 edition of 60 Minutes on CBS. The problem is, all those 6.5 million numbers are active. It is hard for the S.S. Administration to account for most of these old records. Therefore, they could be used to report wages, open bank accounts, obtain credit cards or claim fraudulent tax refunds. Read more…
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