Minnesota Man Is No Longer Dead, According To IRS

TWIN CITIES, MN — Nobody likes doing their taxes, but imagine trying to file them as a United States citizen who is legally deceased. For 29 years, the federal government declared Adam Ronning to be dead. But the rumors of Ronning's demise were greatly exaggerated by the IRS.

Ronning, 33, still lives and breathes in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, but he's been legally dead since he was 4. "They blamed a computer glitch, but it has been 'glitching' ever since," Linda Picard-Millette, Ronning's mother, told KMSP. "If you Google him on the computer he’s dead," she added.

Picard-Millette received a letter in May 1987 stating that she no longer qualified for child support because her son was declared deceased. But after nearly three decades, with the help of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the glitch has been reversed, and Ronning is no longer dead in the eyes of the government.

Read much more at KMSP.

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