Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

Estimates are that only 35 people worldwide are still living at age 112. But you wouldn’t know it from the Social Security Administration’s publicly sold death master file, which still lists as living ...

The Social Security Administration%27s Death Master File contains names of 83 million dead people Agencies use that data to combat fraud%2C but scammers use it to obtain fraudulent tax refunds A ...

A clerical error has turned Renee Williams into the living dead. The 66-year-old West Philadelphia woman lost access to her bank accounts, health insurance and ...

You don't ever want to find yourself on the Social Security "death master file." It's a financial death and a sort of living hell where you spend years trying to convince a hobbled bureaucracy that ...