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Government Typos 'Kill' Thousands

People very much alive struggle to convince Social Security they're alive

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 1, 2008 9:08 AM CST

(Newser) – It's not easy being dead—just ask Laura Todd. The Tennessee woman is one of an estimated 12,000 people a year the government declares dead—often because of a typo in the Social Security database—when they're still very much alive, MSNBC reports. The... Read full story »

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