Government says he’s dead, but man insists he’s very alive

In this photo taken Monday, May 9, 2016, Chuck Zellers, of Lincoln, Neb., looks through some of the records and paperwork he has accumulated while trying to fix a Social Security error that declared him deceased. (Gwyneth Roberts/The Journal-Star via AP) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; KOLN-TV OUT; KGIN-TV OUT; KLKN-TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT In this photo taken Monday, May 9, 2016, Chuck Zellers, of Lincoln, Neb., looks through some of the records and paperwork he has accumulated while trying to fix a Social Security error that declared him deceased. (Gwyneth Roberts/The Journal-Star via AP) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; KOLN-TV OUT; KGIN-TV OUT; KLKN-TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

By Associated Press May 12, 2016 2 min read

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A Lincoln man says he’s not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said.

Chuck Zellers learned of his demise in March after his Social Security deposit was removed from his bank account while he and his wife, Alice, were in Arizona, he told the Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/1TcuM3V ).

They talked to a woman at the Social Security office who checked her computer and told him, “‘Oh, by golly, you are dead,'” Zellers said.

“She told me it could be a funeral home declared you deceased; or that someone just put in a wrong keystroke or something like that,” he said.

But Zellers, 73, admitted he will probably never know how it happened.