You can find its address and phone number using the Social Security Office Locator. Note that the SSA closed all of its offices for face-to-face business effective March 17, You can still reach the SSA online and by phone. After providing a statement explaining why you need a new number, you must provide credible, third-party documentation of your reason, including medical, legal, or police documents regarding identity theft, abuse, or harassment. You will need to fill out a new Form SS-5 , the same one that you or your parents may have filled out to apply for a Social Security number and card in the first place.
It asks a series of questions, including whether you or someone acting on your behalf ever filed for or received a Social Security number and card before and, if so, under what name.
In addition, you must provide documentation of your U. If you changed your name legally in the past, you'll also need to provide supporting documentation of that. The Social Security Administration does allow you to change your number, but only under limited circumstances, such as identity theft or if your safety is in danger. You will also need to supply appropriate documentation to support your application for a new number.
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I have written the archives requesting help. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly welcomed. There are only a few occasions where a person has more than one Social Security Number, For instance, a Railroad worker may have had two social security numbers in their names. Up until , Series numbers were designated for Railroad workers because they receive their retirement benefits from the Railroad Retirement Board and not the Social Security Administration.
But, because railroad workers are often laid off for long periods of time, they would take jobs in other non-railroad industries, so they had to have a "regular" social security number to track and later collect benefits, This practice of issuing two SSNs ended in A person can request a new Social Security number, but only under certain conditions:.
Before people often didn't obtain a social security number until the age of 14, or before getting their first job, but in , the government started requiring social security numbers for every child claimed as a deduction.
As an aside, the nine-digit number is divided into three parts: the first three digits, are known as the area number because they were formerly assigned by geographical region; the middle two digits, are known as the group number ; and the final four digits are known as the serial number. Again, no study has been conducted to identify precisely how many of those can be attributed to mistakes and how many to undocumented immigrants.
In , the Social Security Administration sampled its records and determined that On the other hand, an earlier study by congressional investigators found the majority of filers on the no-match list worked in industries like restaurants and agriculture, where the presence of undocumented workers is high.
Workers who pay taxes using the wrong Social Security number are a boon to government tax revenues. Social Security taxes paid in such situations don't earn proper "wage credits," because the agency doesn't know whom to give credit to. The funds are tracked in what's called the Earnings Suspense File, which has shown explosive growth this decade.
Treasury during that six-year span. The issue of "shared identities" is among the forgotten elements of the immigration debate, but it rears its head once in a while. Recently, two U. Viewed purely as an identity management problem, Coggeshall said his study produced one clear result: "The Social Security number is not a secret," he said. In today's world, it is used incorrectly. A lot of businesses have the assumption it's a number known only to you. That's not the case.
Unfortunately, the actual list of victims remains a secret, for now. ID Analytics has contracts with its data providers that forbid it from sharing the information with the public. The firm has presented some of its findings, including the location of fraud rings, to law enforcement and "that information was well received. The firm does offer a Web-based tool that allows consumers to get a sense of their risk, called MyIDScore.
The tool is free, and consumers can check their score without supplying their SSN, but the website includes advertising for paid identity theft protection services. Further, even if there's a second SSN connected to your name, your score might not be high -- if ID Analytics believes that incident is an accident, as opposed to a malicious data theft. And if your score is high?
Neither of those agencies can tell you if someone else has your SSN either. But they can help you clean up an identity theft mess after the fact. Consumers who obtain their credit report hoping to see if anyone else might be using their SSN are often disappointed; records of such imposters are often kept on separate reports, sometimes called sub-files, which cannot be view by the rightful holder of the SSN.
Annual Social Security wage earnings statements also don't include the data, because wages earned by workers using their SSNs go into that Earnings Suspense File and don't show up on the report. Cookie Notice We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. In case of sale of your personal information, you may opt out by using the link Do not sell my personal information.
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