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From: "Charles S. Mason, Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [APG] only complete, up-to-date SSDI
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:38:56 -0400
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I am not sure about earlier entries, but Richard is correct for more recent
entries. My father died in July 2003 and my mother collected the death
benefit. He showed up in the index about 9-10 months later. My mother died
March 2007 and we did not qualify for the death benefit, but her death was
reported to SS. She showed up in the index about 4 months later.

Chuck Mason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
To: <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] only complete, up-to-date SSDI


> "Cheryl Rothwell" <> wrote:
>
>> There are people who died later than that who aren't there either.
>> Someone
>> once posted -- consider this rumor -- that initially only those where
>> survivor benefits were paid were entered but that doesn't fit the cases
>> I've
>> seen either.
>
> Cheryl, it is definitely "rumor." That misconception likely got started
> when
> the SSA death list was first marketed in a CD set, it was called the
> Social
> Security Death Benefit Index. The inclusion of the word
> "Benefit" started the confusion. Even RootsWeb's otherwise fine
> explanation
> of the SSDI initially said only those who had received SS benefits were
> included in the list. As I have written many times over the years, there
> are
> only four conditions that have to be met in order for a name to be in the
> list:
>
> 1. The person should be deceased.
> 2. The person should have a Social Security number.
> 3. The person's death must have been reported to the SSA.
> 4. The information has to have been correctly entered into the database.
>
> If those four conditions are met the name will usually be found on the
> list.
> But there's no guarantee! <g>
>
> Richard
>
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