"Well, when I first saw it, I didn't think it looked very official, so I was going to ignore it, but I tend to need to read everything. And so I read through it and I couldn't believe it was saying that it had received notice of my death, so I was kind of shocked," Flack said.
Social Security eventually wired Flack a major portion of her benefits, telling her the rest is on its way.
A Social Security spokesman says the agency can't tell for sure how they received the erroneous death report.
