Every year about 3.6 million births and 3.1 million deaths are recorded, and each death record ripples into Social Security, banks, insurers, Medicaid and the voter rolls. When a record is wrong, a living person loses benefits, accounts and their vote. This briefing maps vital records in every state and shows how BB2G keeps them accurate.
States are shaded by births plus deaths recorded per 1,000 residents in 2024. Each glow is a documented outage, breach, matching error or voter-roll death match; red marks breaches and records that wrongly listed living people as dead.
National findings and recent state incidents, newest first.
The audit follows each birth and death record from the hospital or funeral home to every agency and company that receives a copy.
A physician, medical examiner or funeral home certifies the death in the state's electronic system.
The state registrar files the record and issues certified copies.
Records cross state lines through national exchanges when a person dies away from home.
SSA updates its master record, and benefits stop.
The Death Master File goes to banks, insurers, credit companies and pension administrators.
Election offices, Medicaid and pension systems remove the person.
The state's electronic birth and death systems, county registrars and their vendors.
Which states, agencies and companies receive each record, and under what agreement.
Who buys certified copies and death data, and what they do with it.
How many records are amended, how many living people were wrongly listed dead, and how fast it was fixed.
Whether a correction reaches every downstream copy, not just the first one.
How long births and deaths can't be registered when a system goes down.
A wrong death record cuts off benefits, bank accounts, insurance and the right to vote. BB2G treats every death-driven shutoff as a decision that needs proof.
A death needs two independent records that agree on name, birth date and identifiers before anything shuts off.
A partial match, like a birth date plus four digits, goes to a person for review instead of removing anyone.
The person or family gets notice and a chance to answer before a voter or benefit record ends.
Each record carries where it came from, who changed it and when.
When a record is corrected, WAYBILL sends the fix to every agency and buyer that got the wrong one.
A paper and offline path keeps births and deaths registered when the system is down.
A death record passes from the bedside to the registrar, Social Security, the Death Master File and dozens of downstream systems. At 95% per step, the chain is right only 36% of the time. Move the sliders.
With BB2G, each handoff has a check that catches 99% of errors and holds the record for a person.
Rank 1 records the most births and deaths per 1,000 residents (2024). Select a column to re-sort.
Documented vital-records incidents and death-record matching errors, newest first, each linked to its source.
2024 births and deaths and every documented vital-records incident in each jurisdiction.
How a vital record goes wrong, and the controls that catch it.
Read-only first, then accuracy controls where shutoffs happen.
Authorize a read-only audit of the state's vital records flows, error rates and death-record matching rules.