Mechanism

Administrative Homelessness

Narrates itself as security, verification, fraud prevention.

“How do I prove I exist to a system that says I don't?”

You might be inside it if

Can you prove you exist to the system that says you don't?
Does the system that caused the problem also control the appeal?
Is there a human being who can override the database?
Would fixing this require legally existing in a way that the error prevents?

Hard to see because appeal processes don't exist or require being alive in the system to use them.

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