To report the death of a beneficiary, you should: 1  Notify the bank or other financial institution of the beneficiary's death. 2  Request that the bank or other financial institution return any funds received for the month of death and later to Social Security as soon as possible.  Return checks to Social Security as soon as possible.
Durbin: We just went through a government shutdown of your creation. Itâs cost $30 billion for taxpayers, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the Republican Party brand is at the lowest level in the last 30 years.
Playing Chicken with the $18 Trillion U.S. Economy: The full cost of the last government shutdown two years ago was staggering â it delivered a $24 billion blow to the U.S. economy and taxpayers. Now we may be about to repeat government shutdown history on Dec. 11.