>> reporter: patrick o'carol is the social security administration's inspector general. his office investigates how the death master file is used and abused. >> right now the death master file has entered about 86 million records in it, and it gets about 2 million records every year from the states. and we're probably, as with everything else, as strong as the weakest links. some states are reporting electronically and have very good data. other states it's done at a haphazard level. >> reporter: the much more costly problem is in the and are not recorded. your office found that social security had no death data for 6.5 million people over the age of 111. do you really believe that there are 6.5 million people over the age of 111 in this country? >> no. in fact, that's why we did the audit on it. what we were finding is that people that were over 112 years of age were opening up bank accounts and we got suspicious. we found that 6.5 million was not recorded as being deceased. >> reporter: how many people are countrisome >> i'm thinking ten. >> reporter: most federal agen

. >> reporter: patrick o'carol is the social security administration's inspector general. his office investigates how the death master file is used and abused. >> right now the death master file has entered about 86 million records in it, and it every year from the states. and we're probably, as with everything else, as strong as the weakest links. some states are reporting electronically and have very good data. other states it's done at a haphazard level. >> reporter: the much more costly problem is in the millions of americans who do die and are not recorded. your office found that social security had no death data for 6.5 million people over the age of 111. do you really believe that there are 6.5 million people over the age of 111 in this country? >> no. in fact, that's why we did the audit on it. what we were finding is that people that were over 112 years of age were opening up bank accounts and we got suspicious. not recorded as being deceased. >> reporter: how many people are over the age of 111 in this countrisome >> i'm thinking ten. >> reporter: most federal ag

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