9. Ten Thousand Dead People Get Stimulus Checks, Social Security Administration Blames a Tough Deadline
Whoever said you can’t take your money with you when die clearly never anticipated the stimulus.
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 from Uncle Sam, including dead people. The Social Security Administration (SSA) blames a strict mid-June deadline for mailing out 10,000 checks to deceased persons.James Hagner, of Orchard Beach, Maryland received a stimulus check for his mother who has been dead for four decades.
SSA admits to sending out at least $2.5 million in stimulus cash to other dead people. A Long Island , New York woman received a $250 check from the U.S.
Treasury, but it wasn’t for her. When Antoniette Santopadre got her stimulus check that she was expecting, she quickly realized it was for her dead father, Romolo Romonini, an American citizen who passed in Italy 34 years ago.
The SSA later discovered that he had never even participated in the Social Security system.The SSA says that they didn’t review all the Social Security records, though it raises questions about how long it must have been since the agency last reviewed its rolls. Santopadre’s father died 34 years ago and Hagner’s mom died 40 years ago and neither received a Social Security check since the Johnson administration.
According to SSA, the problem was that they didn’t have a record of death.
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 from Uncle Sam, including dead people. The Social Security Administration (SSA) blames a strict mid-June deadline for mailing out 10,000 checks to deceased persons.James Hagner, of Orchard Beach, Maryland received a stimulus check for his mother who has been dead for four decades.
SSA admits to sending out at least $2.5 million in stimulus cash to other dead people. A Long Island , New York woman received a $250 check from the U.S.
Treasury, but it wasn’t for her. When Antoniette Santopadre got her stimulus check that she was expecting, she quickly realized it was for her dead father, Romolo Romonini, an American citizen who passed in Italy 34 years ago.
The SSA later discovered that he had never even participated in the Social Security system.The SSA says that they didn’t review all the Social Security records, though it raises questions about how long it must have been since the agency last reviewed its rolls. Santopadre’s father died 34 years ago and Hagner’s mom died 40 years ago and neither received a Social Security check since the Johnson administration.
According to SSA, the problem was that they didn’t have a record of death.
