Search: College hopeful denied loan for being 'dead'

Getting a loan for college requires some basic qualifications: Among them, being alive. So when Harvard, Neb., high school senior Corbin Russell applied to get a loan to go to this community college, he learned that he couldn't, because he was "dead" — or at least his Social Security number had been "flagged" as belonging to a dead man (report: how many people are wrongly declared dead by Social Security each year?).

 

 

Learn about a recent computer breach that may have impacted 25,000 Social Security numbers.