My question is confusing but I’ll try to explain. My dad passed away recently. I called social Security to let them know and to find out what I needed to do but the never asked for death certificate she just stated that dad‘s benefits for Friday would be returned also my dad has automatic stuff coming out of the bank I don’t know what to do exactly because if I leave it in there then all of his automatic stuff that he had will come out I don’t know what all he has to call them and tell them that he’s no longer here with us but then if I take The money out and close the account so nothing could be automatically taken out And dad doesn’t get overdraft fees and everything else that I’m going to have to pay out if I was to leave it in there so I don’t really know what to do because I don’t want to get in trouble For taking it out On the other hand I don’t have the money to be paying early termination fees and overdraft fees and I was told the bank will the deck deduct that from the amount that is in the bank which means I’ll have to pay that back to Social Security what do I do and how do I get to Social Security to expect to get the address for payments to make payment arrangements before this and that badly can I go to jail for something like this

Hi,

I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm afraid I can't offer you much help. Social Security wouldn't be involved in any payments to creditors. The only things that may have been deducted from your father's checks would be Medicare premiums and possibly federal income taxes. Any other bills that your father was paying would have been arranged between the bank and creditor.

I would check with the bank to see if they can help you sort out the situation and advise you.

Best, Jerry