LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ (AZFamily) — Donna Howard is breathing a little easier these days after being mistakenly declared dead and having her vital accounts shut down.

“It feels good, but it’s still just a bit stressful,” she said.

In a previous On Your Side report , Howard told us she was informed through her prescription provider that she was deceased.

The situation snowballed from there, with other notifications telling her she had been declared dead.

Even Medicare, Howard’s bank and her railroad retirement account had listed her as no longer living. “I didn’t have health insurance for months,” she said. “And they declared me deceased without a death certificate, so my pay stopped.”

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