A report about a pensioner (66) from Berlin makes you sit up and take notice: The woman was accidentally officially declared dead due to a mistake in the pension insurance.
According to
a report,
a
pensioner
from Berlin has experienced unbelievable things.
Fortunately, the misunderstanding cleared up quickly.
This is what happened to the 66-year-old "Bild.de": The woman went to see her doctor at the beginning of August *.
The office hours assistant
wanted to read in
the
health insurance
card
- but the computer reported that the
card was invalid
, the report says.
According to the pensioner, she called the health insurance company to complain, according to "Bild.de".
“The employee told me that I died on July 19th!
The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund would have told them that. ”By calling the Post Pension Service, she learned that this was correct and that it was the last time she had received her pension.
"I was dead for 20 days," at least on paper.
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Report: Pension insurance incorrectly sorted death certificate
The 66-year-old announced in a letter to the
pension insurance
that she was doing well, as the report said.
The sober answer was therefore: a new
pension decision
.
How the mistake could happen, explained a spokeswoman for the responsible pension insurance according to "Bild" as follows: A death certificate from another process was accidentally assigned to the woman.
As a result, the pension was wrongly set and the health insurance company was informed.
"We corrected everything immediately and would like to apologize for the inconvenience," said the spokeswoman, according to the report.
(ahu) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network
.
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