You would also think death records w/b cross referenced.
You would also think death records w/b cross referenced.”
You would think so - but what if no one reports the death to the proper agencies?
Having worked with data files for longer than I want to think about, there are probably already so many patches and updates to information in the SS system that it has lost all its credibility. Really needs to be scraped and set up with safeguards to ensure that the information as entered and when revised is correct.
Re payment of bills and handling financial affairs for an elderly or disabled person, I do have some clients that I do that for and have done that for relatives. But I always had a court issued document authorizing me to serve as administrator and the checking account includes that designation. That way all parties have some protection.