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Old Mar 21, 2013, 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by dgcpaphd
The labor expense to Delta to hunt for deceased account holders would far exceed any savings in finding unreported deaths of account holders.
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IIRC DL doesn't have my SS number, and there are other people in this country with the same name as mine. Even one (completely unrelated to us) with a wife with the same name, and her name is quite unusual.

So, the odds of a positive match to the SSDI are questionable.
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