now i know where all the ssi monies are going...that's crazy...

LOL!!! That really IS funny!!

Pathetic!

See, the deal is they won't talk to you when it's appropriate, but they will send you letters like that.

Last year DH called with a question about how his SS payments would be reduced if he collected a small sum held in a teachers' retirement fund. (He infrequently subbed, but all teachers must pay into this fund.) Six months later, long after we'd figured it out for ourselves and he'd collected the money, SS called saying they were 'working on it'. NeverMIND!

When DH's father was in the service (WWI)he took out an insurance policy. Later, he named DH the beneficiary. His father died when DH was nine. DH started receiving monthly checks for $1.89 -- comic book money at the time. The benefit has never changed and will continue until DH dies. It has to cost the government a ton to manage this sort of thing; to cut checks this small for lord knows how many years. We spent days on calls and letters to get them to agree to send the benefits annually. DH even tried to get them stopped completely -- no dice; no can do; gotta have your death certificate to do THAT!

Once I located a very old man at a nursing home where he was receiving SS checks -- or rather, the 'home' was receiving his checks. When I tried to telephone the man they didn't have a record of him as a patient but put me through to a a floor nurse. She'd worked there a long time. She remembered this man. He'd died years earlier. (How many 'homes' are still collecting on long deceased patients?)

Strange....a number of posts have been removed from this thread.

Why??

Oh gosh!!!! Don't even get me started on SS!
DD collects for DGS because of Steve's death. His other son from first marriage does too, rightfully so.
BUT with his ex wife and DD eligible to draw at some "possible future point" everything is screwed up every few months!!!!!!!BIGTIME screwed up too. Neither want to draw for themselves and have told that repeatedly. Doesn't matter. If you get a notice you've been overpaid according to their calculations since there may be 2 "possibilities" somewhere in the next 30 years you'd better have the $$ to send in.

I think it must be an automatic form letter. I got the same one when I applied for ss benefits just before retiring. I didn't discuss disability either.

SS aside, I got a letter calling me to jury duty for a neighboring county, in which I don't live (and never lived). I answered their questionairre, one of the questions was do you live in x county? (No).

I did receive a letter in the mail excusing me for jury duty based on the answers of my previous questionnaire. (Whew!) I was waiting for that answer with baited breath, seeing that I was to report the Tuesday after Memorial Day and it would have thrown a wrench into my plans!

As to jury duty--I was called to jury duty in a central Texas county, showed up, and was told, "thank you for coming because we don't know who we called for duty and have no way of ascertaining if you are delinquent or not." And for this I cut short a trip to San Antonio by two days!

Really? Posts disappearing? Or are you joking, Monica?

Marlingardener, your story is as funny as mine!

I'm not joking. There are two early posts missing.

That's weird. They didn't show up in my email either.

That's funny, Susan! :-)

I blogged a few months ago about something goofy I got in the mail. It was a "second chance" letter selling life insurance...and it was addressed to my mom! LOL!

Here is a link that might be useful: My blog about second chances

The letter you received is called a close-out letter.

The Social Security Administration sends them routinely to make certain people do not think they have filed a claim for benefits. Generally, it should take more than a phone call about an unrelated matter to generate such letter, but If the worker input something into the computer, it may have issued a later alert telling them to send the letter.