tombstoning
n.— «Morris also told of recent indications that Medicaid, Social Security and other HEW claims are being filed in the names of dead persons. The subcomittee chairman, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), called this “tombstoning.”» —“HEW Fraud-Fighter Asks the Senate To Shut Billion-Dollar Legal Loopholes” by Alice Bonner Washington Post (A3) July 21, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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