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Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say (www.seattletimes.com)
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“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

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[–] yunxiaoli 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,”

How in the hell you wake up dead?