Since 1980, the DIS data base has substantially grown by receiving continual updates from Social Security Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, all branches of the Military, Office of Personnel Management, Federal and State Government, and many other sources. The process of exchanging death information is analogous to that of the banking and credit industries where companies act as a repository for credit information and charge users, such as a bank, a fee to access credit information on individuals.
SSN validation provides essential information at no additional cost.
Please see DIS Report Formats for further information. Detection of Erroneous Payments - DIS has identified thousand of cases where payments to deceased benefit recipients have been illegally cashed by heirs or friends of the deceased recipient. In cases of benefit programs, DIS detects recipients who fraudulently file claims using the identity of a deceased person. Customer investigations based on DIS reports have uncovered unlawful pension payments and use of Social Security numbers for virtually every customer. Some of these cases involve fraud and many years of payments to deceased recipients.