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The article mentions that a funeral director mistyped a SSN, so the SSA does receive bad information from "trusted" sources. That said, I would presume they as
by hannibalhorn 11y ago
The article mentions that a funeral director mistyped a SSN, so the SSA does receive bad information from "trusted" sources.
That said, I would presume they ask for a full name, not just a SSN, in the death notice. They don't seem to be verifying that the name more-or-less matches at all. Certainly there are not 12,000 deaths a year where a one digit error in the SSN would lead to another person with the same name.