Nightmare of the living dead

[NormanH]

This poor chap was declared officially dead in October last year, and so had his pension and social security cover cut.

Worse, he had to provide witnesses and photos to prove that he was alive when he went to court!

He had left his family, and been employed in Montpellier, but because he was on the 'liste rouge' (the list of those who don't want to be in the telephone directory ) the administrator supposed to find him gave up: so, 20 years later he was declared dead.

[giantpanda]

Hi!

Do you mean he has not contact with the social security since 20 years??

Or he has not made any pension contributions for the same period.

What do you then expect?

How do they handle the matter in GB?

Yours,

giantpanda

[NormanH]

If you read the link it explains:

"Employé par la mairie, il ne se cache donc pas"

I imagine that the Mairie de Montpellier paid his côtisations..

No it was an official from his home town  who couldn't find his telephone number, marked his dossier as being impossible to find  so after 20 years it was classed as 'presumed dead'

[5-element]

What a story!

I can only imagine what it must be like to have been thought dead, and struck off all official books as "Décédé" - all the hoops what one would have to jump to prove one's existence. A year and a half sounds about right to do it,  for bureaucratic France. After all, being dead and then coming to life again, does not fit in any of the existing slots!

As you say Norman, the Mairie must have paid his cotisations all the time he was working. It seems that it is only when he was due for retirement that he was thought to have died years before. ????????It all sounds quite mad...