SSDI - Death Report Source Codes |
| Abbreviations Found in the Social Security Death Index |
When you're searching the Social Security Death Index, you may notice codes, such as VA, HC, PE, and 72, listed in the Last Residence column. These source codes are used by the SSA to indicate the source of the death report. The SSA uses these for internal reporting only, but since genealogists see everything as a clue I've included the death report source codes here, along with their uses:
FO - first party report; i.e., from a family member.
72 - report received from a funeral home.
70 - form SSA-704 which is prepared in lieu of a death certificate (DC) if a DC is not available.
PE - assigned to an alert if there is a discrepancy among records; e.g., a deceased person is terminated via SSA"s postentitlement payment systems. After the termination occurs on one payment record (e.g., the MBR, SSR or BL record), that record is passed to DACUS which compares the death data to the other payment records to make certain that the termination is effective for the same month. This situation previously generated a "blank."
BX or BX0 - Bendex
HC or HC0 - Center's for Medicare & Medicaid Services
VA or VA0 - Veterans Administration
There is also an SDR ( Source of Death Record ) codes assigned to state
agencies:
| Alabama | 010 |
| Alaska | 020 |
| Arizona | 030 |
| Arkansas | 040 |
| California | 050 |
| Colorado | 060 |
| Connecticut | 070 |
| Delaware | 080 |
| District of Columbia | 090 |
| Florida | 100 |
| Georgia | 110 |
| Guam | 650 |
| Hawaii | 120 |
| Idaho | 130 |
| Illinois | 140 |
| Indiana | 150 |
| Iowa | 160 |
| Kansas | 170 |
| Kentucky | 180 |
| Louisiana | 190 |
| Maine | 200 |
| Maryland | 210 |
| Massachusetts | 220 |
| Michigan | 230 |
| Minnesota | 240 |
| Mississippi | 250 |
| Missouri | 260 |
| Montana | 270 |
| Nebraska | 280 |
| Nevada | 290 |
| New Hampshire | 300 |
| New Jersey | 310 |
| New Mexico | 320 |
| New York | 330 |
| North Carolina | 340 |
| North Dakota | 350 |
| Ohio | 360 |
| Oklahoma | 370 |
| Oregon | 380 |
| Pennsylvania | 390 |
| Puerto Rico | 400 |
| Rhode Island | 410 |
| American Samoa | 640 |
| South Carolina | 420 |
| South Dakota | 430 |
| Tennessee | 440 |
| Texas | 450 |
| Utah | 460 |
| Vermont | 470 |
| Virgin Islands | 480 |
| Virginia | 490 |
| Washington | 500 |
| West Virginia | 510 |
| Wisconsin | 520 |
| Wyoming | 530 |
| New York City | 540 |
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