[ebysan]

Check your own SS # with this Chart!!

The Chart would not Post so there is a link: http://www.einvestigator.com/links/social_security_numbers.htm

[Past Your Eyes]

Works for me. Mine begins with 001. My wife got hers in Mass and it starts with 018.

[mojito]

I'm sure it's just a coinky-dink that this natural born son of Hawaii (as we have been endlessly assured) doesn't have a Hawaiian social security number.

[SeeSharp]

The first three digits of Obama’s SSN are 042 Obama “never” lived in CT

The SSN prefix does not tell you where someone lived. It tells you in which state the office that issued the SSN was located.

[mark3681]

Works for me too.
Gee, why doesn’t it work for our fearless leader????

[TXnMA]

The chart posts just fine:

SSN Prefix	Issuing State		SSN Prefix	Issuing State
001-003	New Hampshire		478-485	Iowa
004-007	Maine		486-500	Missouri
008-009	Vermont		501-502	North Dakota
010-034	Massachusetts		503-504	South Dakota
035-039	Rhode Island		505-508	Nebraska
040-049	Connecticut		509-515	Kansas
050-134	New York		516-517	Montana
135-158	New Jersey		518-519	Idaho
159-211	Pennsylvania		520	Wyoming
212-220	Maryland		521-524	Colorado
211-222	Delaware		525	New Mexico
223-231	Virginia		526	Arizona
232	North Carolina		526	New Mexico
232	West Virginia		527	Arizona
233-236	West Virginia		528-529	Utah
237-246	North Carolina		530	Nevada
247-251	South Carolina		531-539	Washington
252-260	Georgia		540-544	Oregon
261-267	Florida (Also 589-595)		545-573	California
268-302	Ohio		574	Alaska
303-317	Indiana		575-576	Hawaii
318-361	Illinois		577-579	District of Columbia
362-386	Michigan		580	Virgin Islands
387-399	Wisconsin		580-584	Puerto Rico
400-407	Kentucky		585	New Mexico
408-415	Tennessee		586	Guam & American Samoa
416-424	Alabama		586	All Other Pacific Territories
425-428	Mississippi		587-588	Mississippi
429-432	Arkansas		589-595	Florida (also 261-267)
433-439	Louisiana		600-601	Arizona (designated)
440-448	Oklahoma		602-626	California (designated)
449-467	Texas		700-728	Railroad Retirement
468-477	Minnesota		729-999	Currently not in use

[zimfam007]

Doesn’t work for me.....also depends on when a SS# was requested. Remember not until the late 80’s were you required to get a SS# at birth. I did not get a number until I was 16 b/c I wanted to get a job....

[Terry Mross]

It doesn’t matter to those who worship him. He can do no wrong.

[chris_bdba]

Works for me and Dh both.I always wondered why our numbers shared the first 4 digits.

[mass55th]

The first three digits all work for me and my two sons. We live in NY State. It’s interesting to note though that the last four digits of my youngest son’s SS# are the same as mine.

[USMCPOP]

I thought mine was from Ohio, and I found out it’s from New Jersey. I’m so embarassed... Uh, I mean “What’s it to to ya? Fuhgeddabout it”. Yeah, that’s it.

[Cicero]

In earlier years, people got their ss number when they got a job with reportable income. My number dates back to when I was living in Massachusetts and got my first job, back around 1954.

Later, it became necessary to get ss numbers for your children in order to declare them as dependents on your 1040. That applies to all of my children, starting around 1963. I’m not sure when, between 1954 and 1963, it became necessary to register babies.

There are a LOT of blank spaces in Obama’s history. But evidently no evidence that he ever lived or worked in Connecticut.

[machogirl]

When I was 16, I applied for mine. I’m the same age as Barry. When I was in college, at that time, the school used your SSN as your school ID. The FOREIGN STUDENTS USED 999 NUMBERS.

[justiceseeker93]

I hear that some time very soon, the SSA will be getting away from the state codes in the first three digits of the SSN. From now on, supposedly, the first three digits will be random.

Don't know for a fact, but the new system might have been put into place so that folks like BHO will have an available “defense” if their SS # does not correspond with their state at the time the SS # was issued.

But let's not fall for that new argument that O’s defenders are likely to come up with.

[Rona Badger]

I also periodically enter my SSN into search engines and so far, I'm relieved that no results are returned! I also found these sites that allow validation of your SSN: FakeNameGenerator and SSNRegistry

By the way, they return the following results: Social security number 042-68-4425 is valid for CT.

About five years ago, a family member applied for a replacement SS card after losing his wallet. The "system" had an error in his birth year (off by two years, making him two years older). The hurdles he had to go through to prove the correct year were incredible, including ordering at his own expense, a new, notarized copy of his birth certificate. It took several trips to a federal building office, lots of paperwork and nearly two months for all of the corrections to be made.

The front of my SS card says my number has been established for me :-). Here is what is written on the back of my card:

Contact any social security office immediately if you:

• lose your card--to get a duplicate card.
• change your name--to get a card in your new name.
• are unable to work because of a severe disability expected to last a year or more.
• are 62 years or older--to ask about retirement checks.
• are within 2 or 3 months of age 65, even if you don't plan to retire--to sign up for Medicare.

Department of Health and Human Services
Social Security Administration
Form OA-702.1 (4-81)

If this was the only "mystery" about the President, then I would tend to agree there was a clerical mistake of some sort. But added together with all of the other mysteries about his past coupled with his continued aversion to producing authentic documents, I cannot believe he obtained this SSN through the normal mechanisms for doing so. If we see a copy of his tax return for the year(s) he worked at Baskin-Robbins when he was a teenager (which would likely be during 1975-78), we will know if he ever had a different SSN issued that corresponds to numbers established for Hawaii residents. This is a simple request but he refuses to put it to rest. Why?

[KYGrandma]

Thanks for posting this. I always knew my father had an odd SS#, now I know why. He worked for the railroad. He never paid into Social Security, but paid into RR Retirement Fund.