KHON: Millions worth of taxpayer dollars have been shelled out in the form of payments and benefits to people who aren’t even alive, and few agencies are taking advantage of a low-to-no-cost system that could stop those overpayments sooner.
From pensions to property tax exemptions, even parking placards, payments and benefits that should stop when someone passes away are often passing on to the living....
the state retirement system has been crosschecking state death records monthly since December 2014, with the help of the Department of Health’s vital statistics branch Office of Health Status Monitoring through something they call “death matching.”
We asked what the DOH found when matching up deceased records with the ERS recipient list.
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