Statistics show that the total number of nurses working in the healthcare field in the United States has decreased from 2,669,603 in the year 2000 to 2,262,020 in year 2001(World Health Organization, 2006). This shortage can be defined by either a need based approach or a ratio technique.
Consequently, in most cases the estates of decedents must pay back the Social Security Administration (SSA) for the last payment received. Following the death of a Social Security recipient, the SSA will pay a lump-sum death benefit of $255 to: A spouse who was living with the deceased person at the time of death; or.
In the majority of deaths, however, no payment is made. The death benefit was once a more important part of Social Security, in terms of percentage of. total benefits paid and size of the benefit compared with monthly survivor benefits: the only. benefits paid out between 1937 and 1939 were lump-sum benefits to survivors of workers who.