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New one to me: Want the Social Security No. of a dead person?
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Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
And why haven't there been numbers above 770-something assigned? Because they are reusing numbers. I met someone that was a victim of identity theft and she found that two other people were using her SSN, both legally.

Possibly legally, but not by the intent of the way the SSA assigns numbers. Get this through your head, they do not intentionally re-use numbers. There have been glitches and errors over the years where numbers that had been used were unintentionally listed as available for assignment and were given out to the next group of applicants. There have also been a number of instances where a person lost track of their number and on application for a replacement card were given the number of another person with the same name. They did not notice the number was not what they had originally, or because it had been assigned when they were a child did not know the original number.

As for the 770+ area numbers, they have not been assigned because they were not needed to be assigned yet. The nine-digit SS# gives around 990 million possible numbers after the reserved ones and the all-zero numbers for each grouping are removed from availability. So far the SSA has issued SS#'s to just over 500 million individuals. If you examine the demographics for the 73 years since they started issuing numbers, that is about what should have been issued based on the population who lived in that period. As stated, that leaves over 400 million unused.
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Re: New one to me: Want the Social Security No. of a dead person? - by JoeH - 09-24-2009, 05:28 PM

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