Identity Verification Gets a Pulse Check

Dead people don’t spend much, but the federal government nearly sent them tens of millions of dollars anyway. Treasury Department said Tuesday (July 21) that its government-wide verification process found more than 4,900 payments worth roughly $99 million associated with deceased payees . The payments surfaced as the department and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service screened more than 885 million transactions totaling approximately $2.77 trillion.