8,000 to 10,000 Stimulus Checks for Dead People
James Hagner: It shocked me and I laughed all at the same time and though how in the world could they do this.
TV Commentator: 83 year old James Hagner says he isn’t too big on surprises, but he got quite a big one when he visited his mailbox last Thursday.
James Hagner: I got a check for my mother. She has been dead 43 years, and I got a check for my mother. The $250 stimulus check in the mail.
TV Commentator: As part of President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinstatement act, the Social Security Administration somehow mailed a $250 stimulus check to his mother Rose, who passed away Memorial Day 1967.
James Hagner: I didn’t even expect to get one for myself, but to get one for my mother from 43 years ago…
Interviewer: kind of strange, right?
James Hagner: Yes sir.
TV Commentator: We contacted Social Security representatives over the phone and they told us there is a good explanation here. First of all, Social Security has mailed or is mailing out 52 million checks, and of those 8 to 10,000 have been sent to people who are deceased. Social Security blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline for mailing out all the checks which didn’t leave officials much time to clean up all their records. So that means there are 8 to 10 thousand James Hagners all over the country getting the same surprise in the mail box. The thing is what do you do with the check? Social Security kindly asks that you return it. As far as Hagner is concerned, he would like to frame it and hang it on a wall.
James Hagner: I just want to keep it as a souvenir. That’s all. I will never cash it.
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This is great. Dead people are getting their stimulus checks before many of the living.It makes me so angry I want to spit!
You realize that this is .00019% (less than 2/1000 of a percent) of the checks that went out, don’t you?
“Social Security has mailed or is mailing out 52 million checks, and of those 8 to 10,000 have been sent to people who are deceased. Social Security blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline for mailing out all the checks which didn’t leave officials much time to clean up all their records.”
Why didn’t the “officials” already have their records cleaned up? What does “cleaned up” mean? Is there no one who updates their records as people die?
I read that you can get a stimulus check for someone that has died.Well my father an mother both are died. Father in 2003- an my mother in 2005. Let me know if this is true.