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 ...

A collection of records pertaining to one of the main subjects of an information system, such as customers, employees, products and vendors. Master files contain descriptive data, such as name 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 ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is likely paying benefits to dead people because of reporting glitches in the federal Death Master File, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found. The ...

Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., 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 ...