Are these social security recipients, or just people in the system? If someone goes missing or emigrates and as a result they aren't stricken off the roster when they die this is a vulnerability, but it's not itself proof that the vulnerability is being exploited.
Very good point/question, but interestingly, there are over 1000 "people" in the system aged 220+ years old. SSNs appear to have been created in 1936, 89 years ago. Something else other than emigration is going on given that there weren't 1000+ emigrating/missing 130-year-olds in the US in 1936.
It makes sense for dead people to still have a SSN assigned to them. That's how you would know someone is trying to use a dead person's SSN. They should just be marked as deceased in what I can only imagine is dozens of databases.
Are these social security recipients, or just people in the system? If someone goes missing or emigrates and as a result they aren't stricken off the roster when they die this is a vulnerability, but it's not itself proof that the vulnerability is being exploited.
Very good point/question, but interestingly, there are over 1000 "people" in the system aged 220+ years old. SSNs appear to have been created in 1936, 89 years ago. Something else other than emigration is going on given that there weren't 1000+ emigrating/missing 130-year-olds in the US in 1936.
Are SSNs of dead people being reassigned and causing false positives?
SSNs of dead people are being used.
I'm not sure what that's a false positive for. It's an indicator of some type of fraud.
Civil War veteran recipients is all I can think of.
Only one Civil War pension is/was still being paid. Not sure if you were being serious about anything.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/civil-war-vets-pension-still-remains-on-governments-payroll-151-years-after-last-shot-fired
I was being semi serious because I knew folks like this existed. There's also the stories of the time traveler, but that one is really weird.
It makes sense for dead people to still have a SSN assigned to them. That's how you would know someone is trying to use a dead person's SSN. They should just be marked as deceased in what I can only imagine is dozens of databases.