For the purposes of this post, my social security number shall be… 111-22-3333. If someone holds that, I apologize for taking your identity temporarily.
My twin sisters and I are separated by 6 years, yet our social security numbers are almost identical. [sub]Yes, it’s taken me 6 years to notice this.[/sub] For example, one sister has the number 111-22-3334 and the other 111-22-3335. Does social security allocate certain blocks for possible future siblings when a child is born? If so, why?
Or is this some random fluke in the social security system?
FTR, none of us have ever had our numbers reissued or anything like that. These are the numbers that we were originally issued, all of us at birth.
SSN are not assigned in consecutive order but if you were born in the same geographical region the first 3 digits would be the same. Sounds like an amazing coincidence.
Check out this link for more information -http://www.ssa.gov/history/geocard.html
You were issued SSNs at birth? Are you sure about that? I believe the rule now is that a child has to have a SSN before his first birthday, but that’s a relatively new rule. Two of my siblings, separated by a year, had sequential SSNs because they were assigned at the same time, when they were several years old. Don’t quote me, but I think it used to be that you didn’t need one until you entered school. Is it possible that you and your sisters were assigned SSNs at the same time?
My older brother, born three years before me, has social security number xxx-xx-3334, and my little brother, seven years my junior, has xxx-xx-3345. Yet my social security number is xxx-xx-7334. I still don’t understand it. My mother says that all three were applied for at the same time.