It’s not everyday that you get a phone call from your mom in which she says, “Hey, you’re dead.”
But according to Click 2 Houston, that’s exactly what happened to a United States Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq and has been receiving disability checks from the Department of Veteran Affairs for the last seven years. Well, at least he was getting them.
Joe Morris said his parents received a condolence letter from the VA that said he died on April 1, and his wife is still getting them. The letters said that Morris had been classified as deceased, so he would no longer be receiving disability checks.
Morris was obviously still alive, so he contacted the VA to straighten things out. They told him it was a computer glitch that had automatically classified him as deceased, and “it had just done it on its own.”
Morris thought the issue had been resolved, but the VA also contacted the Social Security Administration about his “death,” and now he and his wife are having problems getting a loan to buy a house.
While it couldn’t be confirmed, we’ll make the assumption that the letters Morris’s family received were supposed to be addressed to Corey Feldman’s career instead.
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