article_snippet: the Social Security Administration has no death record for 6.5 million people who would be at least 112 years old, according to a report by the agency's inspector general.
article_snippet: the Social Security Administration maintains a database of people who have died called the Death Master File, or DMF.
article_snippet: Each year, the Social Security Administration adds about 9,000 names to the death list of people who are still living, said Brune.
article_snippet: the Social Security Administration adds 2.8 million names a year to the death list of people who are still living so the error rate is less than 1 percent, Brune said.
article_snippet: Judy Rivers, a communications specialist living in Alabama, told the committee that the Social Security Administration has twice listed her as dead, once in 2001 and again in 2008.
article_snippet: Rivers said her name has been removed from the death list of people who are still living, but her still has problems getting credit because some financial institutions think her is using the the Social Security Administration number of someone who is dead.