Woman gets benefits after convincing bank she wasn’t dead
Mar 17, 2012, 8:40 AM | Updated: 9:52 am
It took two weeks of navigating government bureaucracies but a 92-year-old Port Angeles woman got thousands of dollars in retirement benefits back after convincing the bank that she wasn’t dead.
Betty Longshore says it started on February 29th when she got a curious phone call from the bank. The bank told her they had just sent the civil service commission nearly $17,000 in retirement benefits paid since July because their records indicated that was when she died.
The odd part is nobody actually reported that Longshore had died. As it turns out, an operator error at the civil service office caused the mishap.
“It’s been two weeks now and I’ve been very active, and this morning all of it came back,” Longshore said of receiving her retirement benefits on Friday.
Longshore recommends to not keep your money market funds in your checking account, considering it’s too accessible for mistakes to occur.
