- Pensions: Social Security "confiscates" 12,000 euros to a deceased retiree when they wrongly register their death date
Social Security will reimburse the 12,000 euros he withdrew from the account of a deceased retiree after recording, by mistake, that his death had occurred a year earlier . As this newspaper published last Monday, EDQ died on January 1, 2020 in Arrecife (Las Palmas), but the official responsible for recording the date of his death noted on January 2, 2019. Social Security, When he understood that the pensioner had continued to receive his retirement for a year after he died, he proceeded to withdraw the approximately 12,000 euros to which the annual benefit amounted.
The family was not aware of the situation until the bank informed him of the discovery, that is, that the Social Security withdrawal was carried out without notification. « It is confiscatory. They did not inform us of anything or asked if the data were correct , ”they denounced.
Given this situation, they went to the Social Security office in Arrecife where they submitted an application, demanding the return of the funds and also the payment of the expenses derived from the discovery. However, this request had not been answered and, even, they had been referred to Justice, since it is the Ministry responsible for registration.
"We have verified that the mistake has been of the National Institute of Social Security, since the retirement of the pension in the database has been processed manually by the provincial direction with a typing error in the year," sources of the department that José Luis Escrivá directs after the publication of EL MUNDO, which however still do not confirm whether they will also face the expenses derived from the discovery as required by the family .
" This is an unfortunate human error that we will correct as soon as possible and we will apologize to the family ", they had an impact on Social Security, and explained: "Death leave is processed in the pension database automatically by approximately 90 % of cases, and only in 10% of the cases it is not possible to automate the cancellation due to errors in the identification of the deceased, civil registries not yet automated, concurrence of deductions for liens in the pension that require some additional action ... In these cases, the casualties are processed manually, these being the only cases in which there is room for the possibility of human error ».
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