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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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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19578768

“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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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

These greedy fucks forget the reason all these compromises are in place is because it was deemed much more palatable than getting mauled to death by an angry mob. They might be betting they put such a big police and surveilance state that they're immune to the basic political reality, but they're still gonna need to get real lucky real often at this pace.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

When the ira was bombing the uk and thatcher was lucky to not die in a bomb, there’s a famous quote that they only need to be lucky once, she needs to be lucky every time.