Originally Posted by
GUWonder
DHS wants to tighten up the accuracy of the SSA's Death Master File so that more Social Security numbers are matched with death of the individuals. Sounds all well and good to reduce fraudulent ID use and other stolen identity related issues, but the problem with that is some people who are alive have been noted as dead:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamo...ty-death-list/
And once mistakenly added to the Death Master File, the living innocents find that a fix is not all that easy and all sorts of trouble hit them when doing ordinary things in life, including while trying to travel.
The public as a whole may not care that some SSA info is somehow being used for TSA PreCheck determinations. I'm hoping the US Senate investigates PreCheck LLL outcomes for those who are dead or listed as "dead" when not, if only to make more people aware of how SSA numbers are being used to measure us Americans when we travel.
60 Minutes did a segment on this problem on Sunday night. One woman was reduced to living in her car for 6 months after being declared dead by the SSA and is now living in a trailer in a campground. That was not her lifestyle before the government screwed (can I say that here?) her over.