[Legal88101]

When my mother died a few years ago here one small pension check kept going into a business (non-profit) account and no one caught it. Ther gov't finally did and has been making a claim now, after about 3 years frim when they caught the error. The funeral home had her SSN and stated they would take vcare of it, I stopped the VA and a small quartly overseas pension check. Any statute of limitations on this? What steps are advisable? I sent a letter to the treasury dept. in reply to their letter but they never responded. Thanks

[aaron]

Statute of limitations on what? Being prosecuted for continuing to take a dead person's Social Security payments?

[Legal88101]

Since we were told the funeral home would take care of the SSA and we took care of the other pensions and stopped them no one considered the funds in the non-profit account as anything other than normal cash flow. We were unaware she had transfered the deposits from her personal account in another city. Mother handled that account and directed the use of those funds.

[aaron]

If the money has flowed into an account which nobody knew about, then the money should still be in the account, and there should be a pretty good circumstantial case that this was a mere oversight.