Dead woman receives stimulus check
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s stimulus plan — including an Anne Arundel woman who’s dead.
The woman’s son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said his mother has been dead for more than 40 years.
That didn’t stop her from getting a stimulus check though.
“It shocked me and I laughed all at the same time and I told her how in the world could they ever do this?” Hagner said. “I don’t even expect to get one for myself and I get one for my mother from 43 years ago ‘Kind of strange right’ Yes sir.”
Social Security representatives said there is a good explanation. Of the about 52 million checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.
The agency blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline of mailing out all of the checks, which didn’t leave officials with much time to clean up all of their records.
9 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
1
[...] when they’ve been dead for 40 years. (H/T Jeff Quinton) Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s [...]
Pingback by Dead Woman Gets Stimulus Check | Lakeshore Laments — May 12, 2009 @ 7:47 am
2
[...] going to dead people: Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s [...]
Pingback by Michelle Malkin » Hey, how’s that porkulus working out? — May 12, 2009 @ 8:46 am
3
[...] is stimulating the dead Dead woman receives stimulus check Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s [...]
Pingback by TheOne is stimulating the dead - NY Sports Day Forums — May 12, 2009 @ 10:23 am
4
Why are we shocked that dead people are getting government assistance when we found out last election how many of them also vote? This is because of the election fraud of ACORN. When you sign up people to vote that are dead, eventually the government will try to contact them.
Comment by MarkV — May 12, 2009 @ 10:29 am
5
[...] woman receives stimulus check Dead woman receives stimulus check [...]
Pingback by Dead woman receives stimulus check - Political Wrinkles — May 12, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
6
[...] stimulus bill is working. Here are is a perfect example of how well the porkulus is working out: Dead people are getting money from the stimulus. Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the BS stimulus [...]
Pingback by Update on how “well” the porkulus is working for America | Fire Andrea Mitchell! — May 12, 2009 @ 7:39 pm
7
[...] Stimulus Dollars At Work Jump to Comments Money well spent - Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s [...]
Pingback by Your Stimulus Dollars At Work « Jane Q. Republican — May 12, 2009 @ 10:39 pm
8
[...] Inside Charm City [...]
Pingback by Porkulus Checks Going to the Deceased?! | DougJumper.com — May 13, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
9
[...] About 10,000 dead people are receiving stimulus checks. [...]
Pingback by dustbury.com » Things I learned today (28) — May 13, 2009 @ 8:01 pm