wait, wut? they've been rolling out new alphanumeric SSN's for MONTHS!Most fixes suggested for updating the SSN system are either technologically untested, expensive to implement — or both.
If all the Liberals killed themselves (like they threatened) after Trump was elected, the problem would be solved.
80% of the numbers compromised.
Hmmm...by who?
Law abiding citizens?
I am old enough to have an SS card that explicitly says “not to be used for identification”. And also old enough to remember when it was printing on checks (remember those?) and many states used it for driver’s license numbers.
I assume that passports are pretty secure. Couldn’t the government use the same technology for new Social Security cards?
Add alphas, excluding I and O, as possible digits. Going from a base 10 system to a base 34 system.
It was never supposed to be an identify system to begin with per the original law.
Just another lie by government.
First, nothing, not one cent should go to any illegal or their family members or any foreign born individual.
Two, get rid of these ridiculous, Disability Courts and the fraud lawyers and administrative judges that run them. No reason someone w/ a crooked toe should be getting disability. I’m quite sure if some of those disability cases were made public we’d be sick.
Three, start prosecuting disability fraud cases.
Four, put all the money collected for it, in a separate fund and it is to only be used for SS recipients.
Five, go through the database and determine how many instances there are of illegals using the same SSN so they can work here illegally. Track them down and deport them the next day. Take their families with them.
That could be a start.
It says right on my SS card that it not to be used for Identification Purposes.
wait, wut? they've been rolling out new alphanumeric SSN's for MONTHS!The experts always are in search of a problem that they either cannot solve or even put forth a reasonable solution.
The Social Security number was specifically NOT for identification. Said so on my Social Security Card.
***and continue to consider it a secure form of identity,***
The SS card and number was never supposed to be used for ID.
SSN cards used to state in caps “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES”. Why was that changed?
There WAS no solution in sight as our own past president used faked SSN.
Now we can fix it, President Trump has six more years to go.
Blockchain! It’s the solution for everything!
I’ve been crowing about this for years.
First, the number. It has no check digit(s). Stupid.
Second, the usage. It is the de facto personal identification card. On mine, the original, it says “not for identification.”
It’s a bloody retirement account number! But through deliberate inaction, the government let it be used as a personal identification number.
It is NOT a tax filing number! It’s a bloody retirement account number!
It was NOT meant to be an index to your criminal file in a huge government database! It’s a bloody retirement account number!
It was NOT meant to be an index to your personal financial information in a credit bureau’s database! It’s a bloody retirement account number!
Recently the Medicare administration issued new cards, with numbers NOT based on SSN. A very good move!
Changing the SS card to a “smart” card is the most colossally stupid idea I have heard of! Only “experts” could suggest that.
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So they want to overhaul SS numbers of approximately 400 million people, but getting everyone registered to vote is impossible?
Congress made a sacred promise to the American people that the SS number would NEVER would never be used for identification. Let that be a guide to any promise they make.