Update on my pension ....
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They messed up last month:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215931011
It took them until the 18th to finally get the money into my account. It’s due on the 1st. There is no pending transaction, either in my bank or my pension account to give me any hope that it will be there in the morning. So I’ll be spending the next two weeks starting tomorrow morning trying to chase it down. And every month, I suppose. I’m wondering if they’re trying to kill me with stress.
Update:
I just called. They said that it will be going in today but I might not see it until Wednesday because there's quite a long process to bringing people back from the dead. This guy was shocked that there was no effort to get in touch with me or my husband. No snail mail, nothing to notify anyone that they had declared me dead. Yes, they know about him. He had to sign papers and get them notarized. It's not showing up on my pension account because that also takes time to reinstate. It only took minutes to kill me, but apparently it takes over a month to get things back to how they're supposed to be. 
We'll see how it looks a little later. Trying not to let the stress kill me. Thanks for listening. 
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As you clearly realize, a lot of first and last name combinations are hardly unique. My actual real name does seem to be unique these days, although in the past two or three other women (yeah despite my screen name I'm female) have had that combination, but they no longer show up if I Google my name.
I have a son who is getting a PhD in astronomy. His first and last name is somewhat common. I'll call him David Nelson. I've told him that when he's doing professional publications, he really, really needs to use either his entire four names "David Arthur Baker Nelson", or at the very least David A. B. Nelson. As it is, there was a professor by the name of "David Nelson" as his university who left to teach elsewhere right before my son arrived.
As for the reduction in my pension, yes it does suck. But luckily, I only worked at that company for ten years, at the beginning of my working life. I always figured it would amount to very little. It's those who worked for thirty or more years and assumed it would be the major part of their retirement income who got truly and totally screwed. While I would love to have the larger amount, I am fortunate enough to have adequate income. As it stands, the pension amount is about 4% of my income. If it were that larger amount, it would be 10%. I am lucky in that I had well-off in-laws who gifted all of their children, daughters and sons in law, and their grandchildren quite generously. We (my now ex and I) always saved and invested that money, and so when my marriage ended, I was in decent financial shape. I needed to go back to work -- I'd stayed out for 25 years raising children -- and those years back in the workforce made a huge difference in my ultimate Social Security payout. I was also able to collect a spousal benefit from age 66 to age 70, when I switched to my own. That delay was very helpful in giving me a decent, if average, SS payout.
At this point in my life I feel that I'm in a demographic sweet spot. My son is grown, highly unlikely to have children of his own (darn, because I would have loved to have had grandchildren but his choice). I'm retired since 2013, (dear lord, has it been almost a decade? Yes, it has.) and so I haven't had to figure out working from home or agonize over going into a job where I could be exposed to Covid. And no need to juggle education for a child while I'm trying to work. This whole thing has been a heck of a lot harder on most people than on me.
Anyway, again more wishes to you that this all gets resolved soon. Especially as you are no doubt counting on that money because you need it to pay bills.
It’s sort of turned a happy situation into total stress.
