Hello friends,
Today my co-worker was telling me about how his mother-in-law is being denied her retirement SSA benefits. The reasoning behind the denial is the birth date she has been using is not the one on her legal birth certificate from Mexico.
The reason she has used the "wrong" date is because when she was born at home in Mexico and her parents didn't take her to a hospital to receive a legal birth certificate until a month later. All these years (axp. 35 years) she has always used the day she was actually born at home and not her legal birth date.
The SSA is saying there is nothing they can do about it and have denied her benefits. Has anyone here seen this issue resolved in the past through the legal system or has she shot herself in the foot for all these years?
I just felt morally convicted to post this question and try to find some information out. I understand the SSA's position however denying a taxpayer their due over this mistake seems so wrong to me... The incorrect birth date didn't stop them from receiving the money from her paychecks every month for the last 35 years.
Submitted August 21, 2017 at 12:21PM by Tightaperture http://ift.tt/2ikvofa
