You don't ever want to find yourself on the Social Security "death master file." It's a financial death and a sort of living hell where you spend years trying to convince a hobbled bureaucracy that ...

Issues with the Social Security Administration's death database have resulted in millions of delayed or lost life insurance benefits.

WASHINGTON — They’ve made grave errors. The Social Security Administration must do more to prevent benefit checks from going to dead people and Congress should step up to pass safeguards to protect ...