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0 pointsprotomyth5y ago0 comments

Its interesting, because I got the impression that unlike a lot of Federal offices, the Social Security Administration doesn't automatically thing they're right. They are touchy if money is involved, but basic fact correction seems to work fine in person if you bring the basic documents with you.

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OldHand20185y ago· 1 in thread

There are hundreds of thousands of living Americans older than the SSA! Think about all the people that never had birth certificates because they were born at home or in a poor rural hospital, or the side of a road, etc. My sister's "official" birth certificate is a letter from the US embassy (in a country that no longer exists), telling the state department of the birth of a US citizen abroad, to an active duty serviceman.

Real data is messy, and theirs is especially so.

anitil5y ago

There were also some exemptions for the need for social security numbers so it's possible they could need one at some point.

(from memory this only applies to grandfather in groups like the Amish who are also required to provide their own form of 'definitely-not-social-security')

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