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From: "Arlene" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT SSDI
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:30:22 -0500
References: <20010630.221444.-498607.6.dean.scribner@juno.com> <3B3F3B70.31A0B39@bellatlantic.net>


I have found many relatives, deaths from all years, who are on the SSDI.
This topic seems to be on-going on all genealogy lists and no one has really
been able to pinpoint who gets included and who doesn't.

I found my gm on it, and we were surprised to find her there. She was born
in 1875 and died in 1971., You never can tell who you'll find there
Arlene
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob gillis" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT SSDI


> Being on the SSDI has nothing to do with benefits or returned checks, at
> least now. The funeral director when he fills out the death certificate
> includes the SSN and the town, county, whatever reports the death to
> SSA.
>
> My mother who died in 1966 at age 63 is not in the SSDI even though she
> had a SSN but I doubt she ever collected benefits and reporting was
> probably not required then.
>
>
> bob gillis
>
> Dean Scribner wrote:
> >
> > My father is listed in the SSDI. He was an unremarried widower in his
> > 82nd year. His benefit checks stopped immediately upon his death. I am
> > his only child, and I did not report anything to the Social Security
> > Administration.
> >
> > My aunt is listed in the SSDI. She was an unremarried widow in her 72nd
> > year. All her children were adults with children of their own when she
> > died.
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:39:13 -0500 Lady Bonita <>
> > writes:
> > > It was my understanding that the only people who are listed on the
> > > SSDI
> > > were 1) people who's benefits would be going to someone else ..
> > > spouse,
> > > child, etc. and 2) that the children reported all the death
> > > information
> > > .. not just that they were deceased.
> > >
> > > Is that incorrect?
> > >
> > > Bonita
> > >
> > > Dean Scribner wrote:
> > >
> > > > There are untold thousands of people who should have been listed
> > > in the
> > > > SSDI, but were not, including at least one of my uncles, and my
> > > own
> > > > mother, whose Social Security card I still have, and who worked
> > > in
> > > > employment covered by Social Security from before the day her card
> > > was
> > > > issued in 1936 until the mid-1960's and received her second
> > > Social
> > > > Security retirement check the month she died, but she has never
> > > appeared
> > > > in the SSDI.
> > > >
> > > > The Social Security Administration has traditionally accepted an
> > > amazing
> > > > number of different kinds of evidence of age and birthdate or
> > > birthplace,
> > > > including church baptismal records, marriage records, driver's
> > > licenses,
> > > > insurance policy applications, census records, school report
> > > cards, voter
> > > > registration records, even a child's birth certificate which shows
> > > the
> > > > mother was old enough to bear a child at the time. It has always
> > > been
> > > > inconvenient to apply for benefits when a modern birth certificate
> > > is not
> > > > available, sometimes difficult, but never impossible.
> > > >
> > > > Dean
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:53:07 EDT writes:
> > > >
> > > >> Cherie,
> > > >>
> > > >> One of my grandmothers was never able to receive social security
> > >
> > > >> because they
> > > >> said she could not prove that she was born! (She was born in the
> > >
> > > >> 1880's,
> > > >> before birth certificates or birth records were kept in the place
> > >
> > > >> where she
> > > >> was born.) When she tried to apply, only her children were
> > > living;
> > > >> all of her
> > > >> siblings already had died. Had a sibling been living, their
> > > >> statement/verification would have been proof that she was whom
> > > she
> > > >> said she
> > > >> was. I have always thought this was very sad. She, of course, is
> > > not
> > > >> listed
> > > >> on the SSDI.
> > > >>
> > > >> Frankie
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> I have hunted for my grandpa several times on the SSDI with no
> > > >>
> > > >> luck. Will
> > > >>
> > > >>> keep trying. Thanks for the tip.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

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