Most fixes suggested for updating the SSN system are either technologically untested, expensive to implement — or both.
We just need to go to a chip implant in our forehead or back of the palm.
The Feds have changed Medicare cards to a number other than your SS# - received my new one recently.
It’s impossible to fix it at this point. If they’d privatized it back in the 90s when Clinton was President it would have been possible to fix it. But privatization won’t work anymore because there is no meaningful social security surplus like there used to be. Back then you could have privatized the surplus without cutting benefits to existing retirees. But now all of the inflow to social security is going to pay current benefits with nothing left over to privatize.
Any “fix” won’t really be a fix. It will just shift the pain to someone else. It will be designed to make the rich and middle class bear the pain.
The GOPs best strategy is to simply say that, remind folks that they told you so, and simply punt the issue to the Democrats. Let the Democrats “fix” it, and then the GOP should run against their fix.
How do you fix a paper card same paper card as Medicare card with NO SECURITY in it.
We’ve still yet to receive the “new’ Medicare Card.
My Military ID has more Security in it, and is encased in plastic with Security codes. So does my DL and Gun Permit.