Woman shocked to learn she's dead
Sarah Jewell is alive and breathing.
So you can understand her surprise when she received a letter from the IRS informing her she was dead.
After a few moments of skin pinching, the 25-year-old, from Michigan, realised there must have been a mistake with her tax return.
She decided to go into her local IRS office in person to show staff she was in fact not dead.
‘'I'm alive! I’m alive!” she reportedly announced on arrival.
After some initial confusion, staff dug through Sarah’s records and found that in November 2014, someone had filed her Social Security number as deceased.
She was told it would be ‘taken care of’.
But three months later, Sarah is still waiting for her number to be resurrected and said the mistake has caused her many other headaches.
One of her credit cards was cancelled and she couldn’t renew her driver’s license because unsurprisingly, staff had an issue with letting a dead person behind the wheel of a car.
Her job as a pharmacy technician is also under threat.
“Everyone has to be licensed in the state of Michigan by the end of June,' Sarah told FOX 17.
“And so if I don't get this taken care of soon, I will essentially be out of a job.”
A spokesperson for Social Security told the television station Sarah’s situation is very rare.
He said around 9,000 Americans are misreported as deceased every year, accounting for 0.35 percent of the country's annual death toll.
Morning news break – April 29
