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I cannot find my father in the US Social Security Index. Why would he not be there?

User15994247594112647693
User15994247594112647693
January 25, 2021 edited February 6, 2021 in General Questions
I cannot find my father in the US Social Security Index. Why would he not be there?

He was born in 1934 and died in 2012.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
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    January 25, 2021

    Did he actually receive Social Secueirty Benefits?

    The most probable reason is that certain submissions since a given date have not been updated. The SSDI database is not a databsse that has continually been updated up till now.

    It stopped being updated (in FS) around the time your father died.

     

    I would imagine though that you may still be able to get records - if they exist - directly from the SS administaration.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 25, 2021

    Did he actually receive Social Secueirty Benefits?

    The most probable reason is that certain submissions since a given date have not been updated. The SSDI database is not a databsse that has continually been updated up till now.

    It stopped being updated (in FS) around the time your father died.

     

    I would imagine though that you may still be able to get records - if they exist - directly from the SS administaration.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 25, 2021

    Did he actually receive Social Secueirty Benefits?

    The most probable reason is that certain submissions since a given date have not been updated. The SSDI database is not a databsse that has continually been updated up till now.

    It stopped being updated (in FS) around the time your father died.

     

    I would imagine though that you may still be able to get records - if they exist - directly from the SS administaration.

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  • User15994247594112647693
    User15994247594112647693
    January 25, 2021

    Yes he received them. Thank you Dennis for the Update.

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald mod
    January 25, 2021

    The US SSDI on FamilySearch is current through February 28, 2014. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1202535

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 25, 2021

    yes - but Im not sure that technically means that a person who died in 2013 - necessarily means they are for sure to be in the file.

     

    I think it simply means - whatever version of the file existed in Feb 2014 is what we have.

    what rules controlled what was in that file at that time . . . Im not sure.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 25, 2021

    yes - but Im not sure that technically means that a person who died in 2013 - necessarily means they are for sure to be in the file.

     

    I think it simply means - whatever version of the file existed in Feb 2014 is what we have.

    what rules controlled what was in that file at that time . . . Im not sure.

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald mod
    January 26, 2021

    Amy, would you be willing to share the PID of your father from the FamilySearch Family Tree? I'd like to see if I can find the record of your father in the US SSDI.

     

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