Nearly 67,000 dead people filed for Social Security benefits between 2006 to 2011, claiming a collective $3.1 billion in income, according to CNBC. How does the government know they're dead? Number one, because no doubt the dead returning to life and seeking out Social Security benefits would probably be easy enough to notice without an audit, and two, they're all people who have listed their dates of birth as before June 16, 1901.
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