A man from Colorado fighting to reverse the error of the Social Security Administration who declared him dead said that he had no idea where the test extends in a third month.
Alex Vukovich’s social security check disappeared from his bank account at the end of January after the federal agency placed it by mistake on its deceased beneficiaries list. His February check never came, and despite insurance earlier this month that Social Security had finally solved the problem, he did not receive his payment from March either.
Vukovich said his bank called him after Social Security sent another opinion that he died on March 17. The Social Security office of Aurora de Colorado did not return his calls after the last notice of death, and the National Call Center told him that he had to make an appointment in Aurora.
The next meeting is only April 9. Although Vukovich has savings, around 40% of retired Americans said that social security payments were their only income from 2020, which means that not everyone could metere a month without their checks – not to mention three.
“It looks like a large circle without outing,” he said.
Social Security Administration estimated that less than 0.33% of the 3.1 million death reports it receives each year requires corrections. But it still works up to 10,000 incorrect death reports each year.
Most reports come from states, but family members, funeral salons, federal agencies and financial institutions inform the agency of certain deaths, he said.
Social Security Administration distributes approximately 1.5 billion of dollars per year in retirement benefits at around 73 million American retirees, disabled people and family members, authorized to survivor benefits.
Another man from Colorado, Tom Kind, also found himself prematurely on the list of social security deaths. In mid-March, he and his nephew could not obtain insurance from the social security administration that they had solved the problem.
The agency said that she could not say if two men from Colorado were wrongly declared in rapid succession was a coincidence or a more important problem.
The Social Security Administration had trouble serving the recipients last month, its website crashed four times in 10 days and the time of telephone waiting from two to three hours in the midst of the costs of Elon Musk at the agency, according to the Washington Post.
Vukovich said he had called or visited the national and local social security offices at least five times before receiving the last death notice, and had been assured that they would have solved the problem each time. The only explanation he received was that someone made a mistake in the data when a man with a similar name is dead, he said.
“I am at the end of my mind,” he said.
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