You can change your social security number.
It’s not easy. You have to prove domestic abuse or that your credit is massively damaged by fraud.
Or…there are loopholes.
AARP shows an article online from April of 2022 with that info. Proves I’ll read anything.
To the loopholes, my friends:
✂️Your family has sequential numbers, and it’s confusing for you to remember your SSN.
✂️Another person also has that SSN (think we’re back to fraud here)
✂️You take religious or cultural objection to certain numbers in your SSN.
A new SSN won’t fully solve a privacy problem though. Your new number will be referenced to your old SSN, and your old SSN is still “out there.”
All of the systemic issues with using SSN publicly will still apply with your new number.
So. The US government seemingly has the logical infrastructure in place to affiliate one or more numbers back to original SSN. What are you thoughts on extending that capability, multifactoring use of SSN or replacing it?
And who would change theirs if they could?
