When it comes to living folks being reported as dead in the Social Security Administration's Death Master File, Illinois has the third-highest error rate in the country, with 13.2 mistakes per 100,000 people, according to a Scripps Howard News Service report. Only the District of Columbia (17.9) and Louisiana (15.0) make mistakes more often.
In 2007, 461 Illinois residents erroneously were declared dead; in 2008, another 1,675 joined them.
Doug Nguyen, deputy regional communications director for the Social Security Administration in Chicago, said the high rate of mistakes here is because Illinois is not among the 30 states involved in Electronic Death …
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