One thing that you can always count on is the idea that an organization will be quick to take money from you but slow to replace it if they make a mistake.
For example, when my grandfather died many years ago for about two months for seemingly no reason my grandmother’s social security check just stopped but my grandfather’s kept coming. The people at the local social security office had apparently written down that the wrong person that died.
It took a couple of months and the enlistment of a social security attorney on behalf of my grandmother to get them to realize the error of their ways.
There are so many things that you shouldn’t have to wait a long time for them to be settled but it seems that its usually the case.
Via The Blaze:
Days after the death of an 89-year-old Chicago woman named Dorothy Carlberg, the Social Security Administration promptly withdrew large payments from her bank account.
Tim Carlberg, the woman’s son, expected the government agency to withdraw one month of benefits, but what he didn’t expect was for the agency to withdraw $7,028 more than was owed, WBBM-TV reported.
Dorothy Carlberg died Aug. 21, but someone at the SSA entered the date as March 21.
Nearly four months after her death, Tim Carlberg is still battling the SSA to get the money back.
Days after Dorothy Carlberg’s death, her son noticed five electronic withdrawals from her bank account that occurred over a three-day period.
Tim Carlberg quickly contacted the agency to find out what had happened and that’s when an employee acknowledged that her date of death was recorded incorrectly.
