“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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    6 hours ago

    Your therapist isn’t paying attention. It’s one thing to obsess over theoretical what-ifs. It’s another to have evidence that a what-if is being directly threatened.

    I’m still trying to get disability. I doubt there will be enough staff left to process claims in the very near future. Again, very real possibility.

    Fingers crossed for both of us.