Aurora resident Alex Vukovich is officially back from the dead, after months of trying to fix a mistake that held up his monthly Social Security checks.
Vukovich first found out the federal government had him listed as dead when his January payment disappeared from his bank account. He notified the Social Security Administration of the mistake, and the problem appeared resolved, but his checks didn’t come through in February or March.
He said he later learned the Department of Government Efficiency had pulled the names of people who had mistakenly been put on the deceased list who were later declared alive, and moved them back onto the deceased list…