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| Social Security forgives debt of daughters whose 'dead' father turned up alive 47 years later |
| 2019-01-12 |
| [Wash Times] Two sisters faced with repaying the federal government $100,000 after their "dead" father turned up alive ‐ 47 years later ‐ received some welcome news in the waning hours of 2018. Lynne Grensted Thurston, 61, said a Social Security Administration agent notified her Monday that her share of the bill and the share owed by her sister, 63-year-old Beth Grensted, had been forgiven. "We were already sitting down to dinner, and she [the agent] called to say she was leaving the office, but, ’I wanted to let you know that the decision has been made,’" Mrs. Thurston told The Washington Times. "’It’s completely erased for you and your sister.’" Mrs. Thurston, a gardener who lives in McMinnville, Oregon, could hardly believe it. "I was just so overwhelmed. It was hard to even process," she said. "I called my sister and said, ’I need you to sit down,’ and she was just blown away. It’s been such a long process. So many people have been praying." In June 2016, the sisters were hit with a bombshell: Their father, Douglas Grensted, who had been declared legally dead after disappearing on a hunting trip in 1968, actually had faked his death to run off with his mistress to Arizona. He died there in December 2015. He stopped dropping by to pick up his American Rifleman magazine in 2015. That really was our first clue. Not only that, but the SSA ordered the sisters and their mother to repay about $100,000 in survivors’ benefits. Mrs. Thurston, who was 11 when her father vanished, was billed about $12,000; her sister Beth, who was 13, owed $10,000, and their mother, Barbara Grensted, received a bill for $87,000. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 I've never understood how they feel they can dun one for the bills of others - even relatives. It makes no sense unless one is a mob enforcer. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-12 12:54 |
| #1 Social Security Administration makes it all simply go away. No need for further investigation of the late Mr. Grenstad's Social Security number or account information. Nothing to be seen here, move along please. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-12 05:26 |