Retired from the canadian city of Victoria, province of British Columbia, seven months did not receive a pension, as the authorities erroneously declared her dead. This is the website Vancouver is awesome.
on Monday, 20 April, 80-year-old Wilma Williams (Wilma Williams) read the morning mail. She received a letter from the Canada revenue Agency, which reported her death.
the Woman decided to call the Agency to know the reason for the recognition of the Agency of her own death. Call back was not easy, as through the Agency distributed financial assistance to citizens in connection with the coronavirus, and there is a lot of calls. After two or three hours of attempts to reach Williams said the Agency employee. The source promised her to clarify the question of leadership.
the results showed that the canadian tax Agency received this information from the pension Fund. In the pension Fund, the woman was informed that in September they received a call from the funeral home and told that Williams died. Then her pension payments owed in connection with old age payments were stopped.
Presumably, the pensioner was confused with another woman who was her namesake. Williams did not immediately notice the absence of receipt of pension payments, since a few months without checking Bank account.
Williams took the situation with humour, but said that the letter stunned her. The pensioner is going through what if a similar letter would have received more impressionable elderly woman, she could have a stroke.
Earlier it was reported that the inhabitant of the American city of Magnolia, Texas suddenly found that she doesn’t have insurance and Bank accounts, as it is mistakenly considered dead. Her social security number was mistakenly attached to someone else’s death certificate and deactivated.
