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More dead than alive
Another episode in our occasional series on how egovernment is revolutionising society takes us to Antwerp, home of Christina Lauwers. Or it would, if she weren’t dead. The problem is that Christina keeps insisting to the authorities that she is alive, and they keep telling her that she is not.
The latest chapter came a few weeks ago, when the Central Administration for the Registration of Vehicles refused her permission to register a car in her name, telling her she had died two years ago. Previously, the Belgian Central Administration had written to her husband with their condolences, and cancelled her identity card until he wrote to tell them differently.
A few months later, she wasn’t allowed to pay her taxes, what with being deceased again. We don’t know why the Belgian government wants her a goner, but it’s nice to see that egovernment is working so well.
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