Rumours of Cathy Adams’ death have been greatly exaggerated.
The Charlotte County woman only discovered that the government believed she was dead at the end of January, when her Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security payments failed to materialize in her bank account.
A call to Service Canada revealed that she had been declared dead on December 13, when the agency apparently received a death notice from a family member.
“The lady was really nice, it took a while but she came back and said, ‘Sorry, I have bad news, we got a death notice for you. My condolences’,” Adams told The Courier. “We were both laughing but at the same time we understood the implications.” Read more in The Courier.