Mar 22, 2025
Social Security told Ned Johnson’s wife and bank he had died and benefits would stop. Being alive was only half the battle to get them back.
Ned is not dead: A man’s quest to show the Social Security Administration he’s alive and kicking
Seattle (CNN) — Ned Johnson is not dead. The 82-year-old proved as much by bounding across a Seattle sidewalk to greet us with a firm handshake and a broad grin. But Ned was declared dead last month by the Social Security Administration, which led him and his wife on a Kafkaesque quest to prove there’s life left in this salty old Seattle seadog yet.
