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To apply for Mother’s and Father’s Benefits with the SSA, you can either call the national toll-free service at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778) or visit your local Social Security office.
Millions of retirees rely on Social Security for their income. But after someone dies, Social Security also provides death benefits. Many people don't know much about this death benefit and how it ...
It is known commercially as the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). The file contains information about persons who had Social Security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration from 1962 to the present; or persons who died before 1962, but whose Social Security accounts were still active in 1962.
The first Social Security office opened in Austin, Texas, on October 14, 1936. [10] Social Security taxes were first collected in January 1937, along with the first one-time, lump-sum payments. [8] The first person to receive monthly retirement benefits was Ida May Fuller of Brattleboro, Vermont. Her first check, dated January 31, 1940, was in ...
A government audit revealed that the Social Security Administration had incorrectly listed 23,000 people as dead in a two-year period. These people sometimes faced difficulties in convincing government agencies that they were actually alive; a 2008 story in the Nashville area focused on a woman who was incorrectly flagged as dead in the Social Security computers in 2000 and had difficulties ...
The Missouri man began stealing his mother’s checks four years after she died, feds say. Son set up Social Security account for dead mom and took money for 26 years, feds say Skip to main content
The provisions of Social Security have been changing since the 1930s, shifting in response to economic worries as well as concerns over changing gender roles and the position of minorities. Officials have responded more to the concerns of women than those of minority groups. [36] Social Security gradually moved toward universal coverage.
A woman never notified the Social Security Administration of her mother’s death in 2010 and went on to steal more than $268,000 in her retirement benefits, federal prosecutors said.