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    Default OPM: ARE YOU DEAD YET?

    OPM released a study that shows they still are having some problems identifying when retired Federal Employees are dead- so they can stop sending retirement checks.

    Turns out that now they are even sending out letters on your 90'th birthday, to verify that you are still alive and kicking.

    One example in the report? A man who died in 1971. The government continued to send his CSRS retirement pay to his bank acccount until 2008, when the man's son died, and the OPM discovered that they had been paying for years and years after the retired employees death. OPM paid out more than $515,000 in retirement pay AFTER the employee died.

    http://www.opm.gov/our-inspector-gen...annuitants.pdf


    I guess maybe- that part about "You can't take it with you" will have to be tought about some more.....



    Match with SSA’s Death Master File discovered improper payments of $1.2 millionto a deceased annuitant
    At our request, OPM began surveying the over age 90 population of the annuity roll in September 2009. At that time, there were over 125,000 annuitants over the age of 90 on theannuity roll. In the Over 90 Project, Retirement Services reached out to a sample of 1,000 of the annuitant peopulation between ages 90 and 99, and all annuitants over the age of 100 (approximately 3,400), and requested that an AVL be signed and returned to OPM. Unreturned forms were noted and a second mailing was sent requesting a response, or suspension of payments would occur. The project was completed in the summer of 2010 with the following results:

    No response to the AVL’s was received for 144 annuitants in the sample, resulting in •
    suspension of their annuity payments.

    Six unreported deaths were discovered, of which three are suspected to involve fraud and • have been referred to the OIG investigators.

    In 866 cases, follow-up was required because the returned AVL was signed by someone • other than the annuitant without having a Representative Payee
    2 on file.





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    Default Re: OPM Wants to know: ARE YOU DEAD YET?

    I hope they weren't still registered to vote!
    THIS IS WHERE I WOULD PUT SOMETHING TO REPRESENT MY THINKING, BUT THEN THEY SHOW UP!
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