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From: Richard Pence< >
Subject: Re: Social Security Death Index
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:58:57 -0700
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(Charles Sullivan) wrote in response to Richard
Pence::

>There is now a Federal law which requires funeral directors to report
>deaths to the Social Security Administration on the latter's "Notification
>of Death" form within 24 hours.

>This was originally told to me by a person in the SSA in a position to
>require knowledge of such things, and just now confirmed by a phone call
>to a local funeral director.

Thanks, Charles ... I was unaware of that one. I wonder if anyone can
pinpoint when this law was passed because one could presume that the
SS Death Index would contain nearly all deaths after that date.



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