Why are the Nearly 3000 Victims of 9/11 ‘NOT Registered As Dead’ By Social Security Death Index ?!?

 

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9/11 victims not registered as dead by Social Security
Nearly 3,000 absent from registry

THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard News Service

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Why are the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11 missing from an official federal registry of death?

According to the Death Master File – the official record of 90
million deceased Americans who had been issued Social Security cards
since 1937 – there were 6,298 deaths recorded on that awful day in 2001
when terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and
caused a plane crash in a rural area in Pennsylvania.

But, because an average of 6,200 Americans die every day, there
should have been more than 9,000 deaths recorded for Sept. 11, 2001.

Conspicuous by their absence in the federal file are many prominent
victims of the attacks, including New York City Fire Chief Peter Ganci
Jr., Fire Department Chaplain Mychal Judge and businessmen Daniel Lewin,
founder of Akamai Technologies, and Thomas Burnett Jr., chief operating
officer of Thoratec Corp.

“The mystery about 9/11 baffles me,” said Beth Givens, executive
director of the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which has
received complaints about the accuracy of the death file. “The only
things that come to mind are some of the conspiracy theories that we
hear out there – and I don’t want to go there.”

Conspiracy theorists, indeed, have noticed and are questioning
whether the government has told the truth about what happened that day. A
video posted on YouTube titled “Where are the 9/11 Victims?” shows that
only 405 people are listed as dying in the state of New York that day.

The Social Security Administration, which oversees the Death Master File, does not have a clear explanation.

“There are several possible reasons,” said Social Security spokesman
Mark Hinkle. “For example, by law, we cannot make public the death
reports we get from certain states. Another possibility is that the
death was not reported to us because the person was not receiving
benefits or there were no survivors’ benefits to be paid on the
deceased’s Social Security record.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also compiles a
mortality registry of information obtained from death certificates,
which is one of the sources Social Security uses for the Death Master
File. The CDC’s registry correctly shows a 3,000-death bump above
average for that day in 2001.

Consumer experts warn that inaccuracies in the Death Master File are a
concern for families who need protection from thieves who could profit
by assuming the identity of deceased loved ones. Researchers also use
the file in a wide variety of medical and scientific studies that could
be skewed by inaccurate counts of deaths.

There are many other mysteries in the Death Master File.

Disproportionately more people are listed as having died on either
the first or 15th of each month than should be. About 3.6 million people
died on the 15th of their month of death, 1.7 million on the first, and
an average of less than 1.5 million for all other days. This means that
more than 2 million records likely contain the wrong date.

“Social Security receives death reports from other federal government
agencies. In the past, these reports included the verified month and
year of death, but did not include the day of death,” Hinkle said. “In
order to process the death information in our systems, we needed to fill
in a day of death.”

Hinkle said the 15th of the month sometimes was used “as a default
day of death” until the precise day of death could be obtained.

Because of clerical errors, the Death Master File also contains the
names of thousands of Americans who are still alive, Hinkle said.

Scripps Howard News Service was able to identify 31,931 still living
Americans by analyzing back copies of the death file. Forty-one percent
of these were listed as having died on the 15th.

These reporting errors are not evenly distributed throughout the
nation. A disproportionate number were found in Illinois, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. The rate of
error was extremely low in rural, lightly populated Western states such
as Alaska, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota and Nevada.

Hinkle did not give an explanation for these discrepancies.

“We make it clear that our death records are not perfect and may be
incomplete or, rarely, include information about individuals who are
alive,” he said. “Because we do not receive reports for all deaths and
cannot release all of the reports we do receive, the absence of a
particular person (in the Death Master File) does not prove the person
is alive. Our error rate is about 0.5 percent.”

Hinkle said the Social Security Administration each week reports
“erroneous death data” to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness
Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber
Security Division.

He said the administration also

“hired a contractor
to review all cases of inadvertent exposure of people’s information. The
contractor has found no patterns of organized misuse and no indications
of identity theft.”

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