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starroute

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Fri Jun-04-04 09:12 PM
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3. You can't rely on the Social Security Death Index

I just started checking through the crew and passenger lists for Flight 11. After 10 or 20 names, I'd only found one listed in the SSDI. Then I started skipping around and entering only the names of the passengers who were 65 or older. Every single one of those came up.

If someone has been receiving Social Security payments, their death *has* to be reported. If it isn't, anyone cashing their checks is guilty of defrauding the government. But when younger people die, their deaths often aren't reported, and apparently in this case, most of them weren't.

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