Woman finds out from bank that she had been declared dead

[PJMcK]

1. This happened to me several years ago

One day, my credit card payment was due so I went to a branch to pay it. The bank wouldn't accept the payment because the account was frozen. When I spoke with an officer, she eventually discovered that the SSA had declared me dead! The next day, I got a text from my ex-wife that asked how I was feeling along with a picture of the letter from the SSA expressing their condolences on my death.

It took several hours of phone calls and an hour-long meeting at the SSA to rectify. The SSA representatives were professional and courteous and they explained the mistake: someone else with a similar SS number had died and someone (perhaps at the mortuary) had typed my SS number instead. All was well.

Oh, except for my ex-wife. She was thinking of the SS benefits and the life insurance policy that she could have received!