If a person who was not collecting Social Security or was not on 
Medicare died, and no one (e.g., funeral home) notified SS, then the 
person did not make it into the SSDI. It pays to search for the younger 
person's SS# in private papers and other records before ordering a copy 
of the application for SS card, especially if the person had a common name.

On short notice the SSA may require us to send a copy of a death 
certificate if there is none on file, before they will continue to 
process a request. This happens even if the person would be well over 
100 years old at the time our request is made. If we do not respond 
within a few days with a copy of the death certificate, SSA will cancel 
the request and keep the money for performing the search.

Housewives who never worked outside the home may turn up in the SSDI 
because they lived into the age of Medicare or collected on a late 
husband's account.

One of the biggest boons of sending for the SS application is that the 
names of the applicant's parents, including mother's maiden name, are 
usually listed.

Immigrant applicants often Americanized the names of their parents, even 
though the parents didn't emigrate.

--Ida Skarson McCormick, [log in to unmask], Seattle

On 9/14/2010 7:39 AM, Diane S wrote:
> What I find strange is that I cannot find my late husband on the SSDI - he was born in 1940; died in 1965 a 1st Lt. in the Army. I have questioned SS re: this omission and they said that they have him in their data and do not know why he is not on the SSDI.<snip>

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