> By the way, we don't have anything like a "social security card". Even kids have this ID card, their parents can (and ought to) request one for each kid.
Nowadays SSNs are generally issued at birth, particularly since the IRS wants one for each dependent listed on the tax return. I believe this has been the case for at least twenty or thirty years; certainly my card dates from when I was born.
> This ID number has nothing in common with your birthday or anything. It is mostly a sequential number.
If it's a sequential number requested near birth that would mean that most people with the same birthday have similar numbers, doesn't it?
> If it's a sequential number requested near birth that would mean that most people with the same birthday have similar numbers, doesn't it?
In practice it is not requested near birth. It is sequential to the time you asked for an ID card, so people who asked for one in the same timeframe get a close number
Nowadays SSNs are generally issued at birth, particularly since the IRS wants one for each dependent listed on the tax return. I believe this has been the case for at least twenty or thirty years; certainly my card dates from when I was born.
> This ID number has nothing in common with your birthday or anything. It is mostly a sequential number.
If it's a sequential number requested near birth that would mean that most people with the same birthday have similar numbers, doesn't it?