Wrongly Declared Dead: A Costly Social Security Mistake

What You Need To Know

• SSA says less than one-third of 1% of the 3 million death reports it receives each year are erroneous.
• People who are wrongly declared dead can have their benefits clawed back and be disenrolled from Medicare.
• "Resolving these matters is taking longer than usual because of the mass layoffs at SSA," a Social Security advocate says.