IRS Declares Woman Dead

If you have been worrying about filing your taxes, here's one problem you probably don't have to deal with (but perhaps wish you did).

Laura Todd can't file her taxes because the IRS thinks she's dead. Although that sounds like a pretty good situation to be in at tax time to anyone who owes, Laura has found that being dead off and on for the last eight years hasn't been a lot of fun. In fact, it's caused her to have her health insurance cancelled and her tax refunds delayed. Laura isn't really dead - never has been - but due to an error in the Social Security Administration, she keeps going on the rolls of the deceased.

The really disturbing fact revealed in this news story is that in the last two years, the IRS has had to resurrect 23,000 people from the dead, and it is stated that it's impossible for them to tell who is alive and who has passed on.