Well, last time I needed a Social Security Card – not my own – it was my son’s. And it was for the obvious purpose: To find out what his SSN was. He had just been born recently, so I needed a SSN for him.
I’ve been asked for it once. I had periodic security checks on me at my job and the investigator reported two people with my SS. A Hispanic, elderly woman in Chicago had a fake ID made up with my social security card. Nothing I can do and she can’t use my income as the SS is tied to my name only. the employer demanded to see mine that one time.
A first-time applicant for a regular Illinois driver’s license who is a foreigner is probably not going to have any of the other required documents needed to provide his or her Social Security number. I imagine the same is true in many other states.
I know - firsthand - you can’t go down in a MMIII silo without a SS card.
Do you really ever need your Social Security Card?
I hade mine laminated (:-
BTW: my voters card is not laminated
such is life
"BTW: *my voters card is not laminated
such is life*"
(correction)
I just looked at my card. It is not a “voters” card. It is a medicare card.
(PART A) started on 09-01-2014
(PART B) started on 19-01-2014
& Life is “great” I hope it is for you too (:-
I will laminate it too
Then it’s now invalid.
The requirements I stated are current, as per Social Security number & card | SSA.
I’ve honestly never been asked to provide anything for identification, other than a birth certificate. Some jobs didn’t even ask for that. The company I work for still had mine on file after a three year gap in employment with them.
I’ve never needed it to renew a driver’s license. I may have needed it to get my original, but I don’t know. I do know that my first license had the social security number on it.
And laminating a social security card invalidates it. I do remember it saying that on the back.
I’m 55 and this matches my experience. I also had to show it the first time I enrolled at all three colleges I attended. I still carry my original one approximately 39 years after I got it.
The I-9 form, IIRC , does not require a social security card as ID. I lost my wallet when I was 17 or 18 and never had to replace the card. Had many jobs and finished college all without the card.
I did replace the card after an HR worker told me that the procedure is painless. It is.
5 minutes in the local SS (make that social security:)) office and viola.
Sorry I misled. On reading the detailed instructions, parents’ SSN are needed only for a minor’s initial application. :smack:
Still, I would have needed to mail my actual pasport (not a photocopy) to Manila, Phillipines to get a new SS card! (I live in Thailand.) That by itself would be unacceptable since not having passprt in hand is grounds for arrest here.
Sorry that the story got blurred. Communicating with Social Security was a very tedious and exasperating experience. Eventually I had to CC the U.S. Consulate on every e-mail just to ensure I got replies.
I’ll need to interact with them again when my child turns 18, as the only type of direct-deposit bank account permitted by the USG for 17 year olds is NOT the same type as the only type permitted for 18 year olds.
To get my disability benefits and later my job, I had to show a social security card and a state photo i.d. My employer has copies of both.
People have applied for jobs here that don’t have a s.s. card, and try to use their passports, green cards, whatever. Without that card, they are not hired.
I got my SSN as a teenager in the 1970s. A year or two later my wallet went through the wash, and it disintegrated. Have never needed it; will be retiring in a few years, so will find out if I have to go back five houses and look for it.
The problem, of course, is that it’s not always wise to make a fuss about things right when you’re hired. I’ve been in that boat myself (although this is not why I needed to get my Social Secirty card replaced.)
The difference between what the law says it can be used for and what people think it has to be used for is vast.
E.g., I used mine, for the first time since my first McJob, to renew my driver’s license. They needed it or something with my SSN on it like a pay stub. Retired, not on SS so I used my card as the “least revealing” version. And they copied it (and all my other “steal my identity please” documents I had to provide).
And this is a state. It should know better. It has no use for my SSN at all in this context.
And you have to go thru this even to get a state ID card which you need to vote.
Security theater.
Interesting. I’m not 100% positive, but I’m pretty sure SSA does not require that someone produce a SS card in order to apply for SS disability - or any other SS - benefits. If some employee requested one, I’d be curious where that was directed in the regulations or policy - but I’ve never specifically looked for it.
Every job I’ve had has been in the last 20 years. The office I work in will accept a birth certificate. The bank my brother works at accepts birth certificates and drivers licenses.
My birth certificate doesn’t even have my social security number on it. I didn’t get one until I was almost four.