Your problem is how you copy the data from $VAR1 to %Status. This code works for me:

$VAR1 = {
          '1' => {
                   '1' => {
                            'EMail' => 'norbert@thnwb.com',
                            'Name' => 'Norbert Bodkin'
                          },
                   '5' => {
                            'EMail' => 'sue@thnwb.com',
                            'Name' => 'Sue Soup'
                          }
                 },
          '2' => {
                   '3' => {
                            'EMail' => 'max@thnwb.com',
                            'Name' => 'Max Grappler'
                          }
                 }
        };

my %Status = %$VAR1;

    my $status;
    for $status (keys %Status) {
        for (keys %{ $Status{$status} }) {
            print $Status{$status}{$_}{'Name'}, br;
        }
    }
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The error message tells you, that instead of a hashref you have a value. If you post the code that copies $VAR1 to %Status, I would be able to help you further.

Also, hashes don't have order. So, if you want to do a sort on keys, you'll need to create a sorted array with those keys.

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