Barbara Smith, 81, expressed disbelief after her Medicare was discontinued and bank account frozen due to being wrongly declared dead, stating, "I'm definitely alive...what if this happened to some poor little old lady?" She faced difficulties restoring her benefits, highlighting the larger issues of bureaucratic inaccuracies affecting vulnerable individuals.
Social Security spokesperson Patricia Raymond claimed the agency does a remarkable job with death reports, confirming that less than one-third of 1 percent of the 3.1 million death reports they receive annually are corrected. However, she could not comment on individual cases due to privacy laws.
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