Woman Dead For More Than Five Years Receives IDES Debit Card Despite Family Not Returning Identity Verification – CBS2 (Chicago)

Her son is already familiar with IDES’ flawed system. Last December the same IDES sent him the social security numbers of 14 strangers, as well as debit cards and unemployment letters intended for strangers but addressed to him. “I’m just at this point throwing my arms up,” he said, frustrated both at the scammers that set this in motion and the state that 12 months later can’t stop it.