[EL] government lists, list cleaning, social security data, and death

[Doug Hess]

Just more evidence of complications that show how fragile list
matching is and why it takes time to clean and how careful one has to
be...one wonders what the counter-point of this problem is: by that I
mean, people declared dead that are not (i.e., people with matching
names, DOBs, etc.).

"Social Security Administration did not properly record 1.2 million
deaths, auditors find" Washington Post, July 12, 2012,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/social-security-administration-did-not-properly-record-12-million-deaths-auditors-find/2012/07/11/gJQAF4SydW_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_fedinsider

"A new report says the Social Security Administration failed to
properly record the deaths of 1.2 million Americans on a list that is
distributed to federal agencies and private companies, making it
likely that their families or others wrongly received benefits after
they died. ..."

-Doug