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Brickbats

Brickbat: Reports of My Death …

Charles Oliver | 9.30.2016 4:00 AM

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Lee Miller of Port Orange, Florida, logged onto his bank's website to find his savings account had been emptied and most of the money in his checking account was gone, too. Thinking he'd been hacked, he called the bank only to find the federal government had drained his money and given the bank a death notice. They say he died back in 2012. Officials with the Social Security Administration say they'll work with him to correct the matter, but only after he signed an affidavit that he was actually alive.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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