Woman 'surprised' after being declared dead

A pistillate has spoken of her anguish aft she was mistakenly declared dead.

Nicole Paulino, of Gaithersburg, successful Maryland, made the find aft applying to renew her driver's licence.

She said she was near "frightened and surprised" arsenic a substance informing her she was officially dormant popped up successful the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration's system.

"It past appears that I americium deceased," she told NBC4 Washington, portion of Sky News' US spouse network.

"I got a small frightened, I'm not gonna lie, and surprised, due to the fact that I americium alive. I'm here."

Officials past informed Ms Paulino she could not renew her licence - earlier she received a missive from the US Internal Revenue Service describing her arsenic a "deceased taxpayer".

Health security for the parent and her 3 children was cancelled, prompting a watercourse of aesculapian bills and leaving her incapable to get the inhaler she needs for her asthma.

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"This really, truly messes up my life," Paulino said, earlier breaking down successful tears.

"It has affected maine a lot. It's affected my health, my intelligence health."

She past received a telephone from Social Security officials, who told her the mistake was the effect of a typo.

According to the representative, a ceremonial location tried to study idiosyncratic other dormant but got a digit incorrect successful the Social Security number, submitting Paulino's fig instead.

The Social Security Administration told NBC4 Washington its records were highly close and that little than 0.33% of the much than 3 cardinal decease reports they received annually were aboriginal corrected - suggesting astir 10,000 reports were incorrect each year.

"This happens astir connected a regular basis," lawyer Joseph McClelland antecedently told the network.

"The interaction is the worst interaction you tin person connected your recognition report."

Paulino told NBC4 Washington that pursuing their enquiries, she received a missive from the Social Security Administration saying the mistake had been corrected and that she was officially live again.