A reminder, only integrity and self values holds you responsible for your wife’s debts if you are not on her account. That said, I’d pay my wife’s debts if she owed them on her death.
As far as the Social Security Administration goes, they can go pound sand. I would not provide them anything of any nature. They would not exist in my mind. eff them.
make sure it is not a scam. My son’s cc companies wiped the record clean since she was the principle card holder. American Express may be different but I would check with them directly.
I don't think that is correct. If you live in a community property state like CA and WA you are responsible.
“As far as the Social Security Administration goes, they can go pound sand. I would not provide them anything of any nature. They would not exist in my mind. eff them.”
If you use a funeral home when someone dies, the funeral home must contact social security so they would be in your life at that point. I’ve never heard of them contacting credit card companies. The funeral home didn’t ask me about credit cards and neither did social security when I had to go to their office about my husband’s death and that was in 2011.