Not just there, though I'm sure it's horrendously painful to navigate as officious a bureaucracy as India's can be. A friend in Kansas has two — very much alive

Not just there, though I'm sure it's horrendously painful to navigate as officious a bureaucracy as India's can be. A friend in Kansas has two — very much alive — special needs children, one of whom, he was informed in a very brusque letter from the state agency that helps them out, had died, and that benefits would therefore cease forthwith. It took weeks to sort that out.