Third-party verification alerts are death reports for beneficiaries from third parties that we must verify by following the steps in GN 02602.050 before we can post death to the Numident. We consider a death report from a third party as verified when a first-party reporter agrees the person died. These are the types of third-party alerts:

1. a. 

   CMS – Third-party death verification required for beneficiary (DM subcode CM)

   This is a report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

2. b. 

   VA – Third-party death verification required for beneficiary (DM subcode VA)

   This is a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

3. c. 

   State Agency – Third-party death verification required for beneficiary (DM subcode BX)

   This is a report from a state agency, other than the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.

4. d. 

   OPM – Third-party death verification required for beneficiary (DM subcode OP)

   This is a report from the Office of Personnel Management.

5. e. 

   Third-Party (Alleged) – Third-party death verification required for beneficiary (DM subcode AD)

   This is a report from a third-party input through the Death Information Processing System (DIPS).

You will receive this alert if the name entered through Title 2, does not match the Numident name:

T2 – DIPS Input Required – Additional Development For Identity Mismatch (DM subcode DN).

If we add death to Title 2 first, instead of through DIPS, the following alert will be generated:

T2 – DIPS Input Required (DM subcode DX).

Resolve this alert by making a DIPS transaction; no further development is necessary.

REMINDER: To avoid getting this type of alert, always enter death information into DIPS first, before entering death into the T2 payment systems.

When death data is present on the Numident, but there is no corresponding death data on the payment records for an individual on the Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and Supplemental Security Record (SSR), the system produces a Numident Death Alert. We perform this match for the following reasons:

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  Reduce improper payments (if death does not make it to the payment records, the person remains in current pay, receiving benefits, until these alerts are resolved);

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  Remove personally identifiable information from the Death Master File if an individual is alive;

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  Allow proper posting of earnings;

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  Identify cases where death information is posted to the Numident, but not all active payment records have been terminated for the deceased; and

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  Identify cases where benefits or payments were reinstated following an erroneous death termination action, but death information was not removed from the Numident.

For instructions to process these alerts see GN 02602.070 (for ETC: D cases, see RM 10220.415).