He’s dying to know what went mistaken.
An aged Lengthy Island man says he has been unable to gather his Social Safety advantages — as a result of the federal company thinks he’s each useless and a fraud on the similar time in what has been a years-long ordeal.
“I’m struggling as a result of day by day I say, ‘Why do I deserve what occurs to me?’ ” stated Wilfredo Pagan, 77, of Freeport to NBC 4.
“It’s a nightmare,” stated Pagan, who runs a modest non secular figurine and candle retailer in Far Rockaway. “I believe they wish to kill me.”
Pagan, who’s in dire want of funds to deal with an onslaught of medical payments from declining well being, is formally listed as deceased by the federal government company, the outlet reported.
Including insult to damage, a employee for the administration thought his Social Safety card was pretend and confiscated it in Freeport when he first tried rectifying the overarching downside, he stated.
He stated at the least one company within the federal authorities acknowledges him — he was capable of get a passport this yr together with his Social Safety quantity listed on it.
However Pagan stated he nonetheless receives demise notices and was informed at one level that somebody within the Dominican Republic is perhaps getting his advantages.
Pagan stated he has offered a delivery certificates and different documentation to officers — and that the denials and accusations “hurts” him emotionally.
The apparently faulty act additionally prohibits him from acquiring what may very well be 1000’s of {dollars} in whole advantages over time.
“They are saying, ‘We’ll do an investigation, and we’ll name you.’ And — nothing,” stated Pagan’s goddaughter, Deana Bain.
“They don’t come out and let you know something anymore as a result of I don’t know in the event that they realized, ‘Yeah, we form of tousled,’” Bain stated. “I’m apprehensive about him going to the hospital and so they received’t take him as a result of he owes a lot.”
However Pagan isn’t giving up.
“I’m entitled to that cash,” he stated. “They don’t wish to give it.”
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