Woman Fighting To Prove To The Government That She’s Not Deceased
Madeline Coburn Is Fighting To Prove She’s Alive
When Madeline Coburn landed an internship of a lifetime in Ghana, she quickly applied for student loans to help her finance the trip. To her surprise, the student loan company sent her a letter denying her application for a student loan citing that she is deceased according to their records. Coburn frantically went to her school, Webster University, and talked to someone in the financial aid administration. “How could this be? I’m standing right here — you can see me,” she said.
She contacted Social Security and found out she’d been reported dead to the three major credit bureaus in January. Coburn’s life quickly became a nightmare after discovering her ‘death’. “Apparently, a mysterious phone call had been made on my behalf, saying that I had died, and that my attorney would be handling all of my assets,” she said . Soon after I found out about this, my bank account was closed and my balance was sold to a third-party collections agency. My school wouldn’t even let me graduate. They said I couldn’t continue classes until I got this identity thing figured out.”
Over a course of three months, Coburn traveled to 16 state and federal agencies with the goal to prove her vitality, but no one could help. She’s on disability benefits due to heart disease, but her disability payments stopped coming when the government listed her as deceased. She is unable to purchase healthcare insurance nor her medication. She can’t open a bank account, nor can she acquire a job because companies refuse to hire her once they discover she’s deceased. Although she was able to prove to Social Security that she’s alive, she’s still dead elsewhere. “My life is still a nightmare three years later, after correcting errors with the Social Security Administration,” she said.
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Sad, amusing, but awfully disturbing. My unsolicited advice to this young lady is to contact her “Congressman/woman” to seek the help she desperately needs to unravel the mystery of her “death” or to obtain proof that she is indeed alive and well , even though she is breathing, walking and talking. Talk about a dysfunctional system.
This is a UNSOLVED COLD CASE these cases are solved all the time and these individuals are quite dead… now Ms. Coburn is in your face telling you with eyes wide open proof that she is yet alive, is our government blind also. Pull record of her Death, Burial, Hospital Heath,Death Records, how did she die, where is the proof she is dead, but she is carring and showing the truth and yet can’t be seen. How can a person make a grand exit without a proper goodbye,….. without the Government / State registering the incodent or death. In JESUS Name give HER LIFE BACK,SIGNED, SEALED, AND DELIVERED SWEETLY AS TO THE WAY IT HAS BEEN TAKEN.