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Subject: Re: calamaras
Date: 9 Jan 2005 12:25:52 -0700
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From the SS death index at Ancestry.com:
"Most of the names listed in the Social Security Death Index date from the 1960s. Though the Social Security Act was created in 1935, a computer system for reporting death benefit claims did not exist until 1962.
Keep in mind that the Social Security Death Index does not list every person who received Social Security Benefits. This index only lists deaths that were actually reported to the Social Security Administration."
If he died and was not married but covered under SS, the death benefit is not paid out. And from what Ancestry says above, it appears that he would not be on the index. When I my Dad died, we could not file a claim for a death benefit from SS but we could from the Veteran's Administration since he collected a pension and was wounded in WWII but my Dad does appear on the death index-he died in 2003. So maybe it is just the earlier deaths that don't appear.
I think you said that he was born in 1890? If he was self employed or worked for the government or the railroad he might not have had a social security card. I think even teachers did not have them at one time. I am not positive about who was exempt. I know that policemen were at one time since my grandfather was a cop and he did not receive SS benefits-just his police pension and Navy pension.
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