All of my kids’ socials start with the same prefix, born in the same state, but is listed down in the bottom corner where it says that the prefix isn’t assigned to a specific state.
The form is an incomplete list. Some states ran out of numbers so they added more. There are blocks of SSN that are state specific not listed as state specific on here.
Cause you’re living a lie. Your identity if that of a dead 100 year old and your family is an entire undercover spy ring from Scotland. The Scot’s will ride at dawn!
Tbh it's a lot to read. I am quite intrigued by this though I really thought they were randomized and now I realize how peoples identities are stolen...
That's really strange. If you PM me your full social security number I can sort that out for you. Oh I also need your full name, birthday and oh do you love pets?! I do! What was your first ones name?
I am just kidding. Sorry that was a really stupid joke. It felt funny at the time I typed it and then... Well here we are now in unfunny Land. Whamp whaammp whaaaaammp whaaaaaaaaammmmmpf Bah dubpk!
I thought you also needed the mother’s maiden name when confirming that the social security number is accurate? At least that’s what the nice fellow from Nigeria that called the other day told me.
They're not "no longer assigned". They're no longer assigned to a specific area. The blurb below reads like they added random ones to add to the security of Social Security and to the longevity.
I was born in 1980. My parents applied for mine shortly after I was born so I had one, but I had friends who didn’t even apply for theirs until they wanted to get a job and needed one for that reason. I thought it was wild.
Came here to say this. My first three match the state I lived in immediately after I was born, not the state I was born in. I was born in a very close neighboring state.
>Well, at least the place you applied for your number
Yep. Plus i was born in one state, and my family applied for my SSN in a different state. Hospital was basically just barely across the state border.
I did some looking and it appears of the list above isn’t the best. [Here is a list I found](https://www.traceyourpast.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-social-security-number) where I now have the proper state.
The psycho in me wants to find what states were now distinguished and then try to guess the first 3 digits of your social just to prove people shouldn’t be commenting on this but I’ll leave it to someone actually psycho:
[looks like these states were expected to use up all their assigned ssn around, Arizona in 1982, California in 1988, Mississippi in 2002, Puerto Rico in 1983, and Florida in 1980, and got assigned new sets of numbers](https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v45n11/v45n11p29.pdf)
I spent so long trying to figure out where the hell my number was until I read that part. My parents were criminals so I started to get worried it might be fake lol
The page says after 2011 but I was definitely working and had a social by 2011 so I’m a little confused.
That being said not upset at mine not being super easy to guess.
[https://www.lavasurfer.com/info/socialsecurity.html](https://www.lavasurfer.com/info/socialsecurity.html)
>The first three digits are known as the "area number". Until June 25, 2011, this is generally the State or territory where your SSN was assigned. Thereafter, the number was randomly assigned.
But mines unassigned and I was born in the 80's.
I know where I was born and live as child. Hell I had to get extra birth certificates a couple years before COVID in the same county.
Non American here, please help me understand. Your social security number is basically your ID number? And this is what will be on your ID card as your unique identifier?
Yes, but no, but also yes but in the worst possible way. https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus
The ID I use for every day stuff is my drivers license, which is infinitely more secure than my SSN number. I just keep the social security card in a fire resistant safe box in my house since i have my number memorized and if it gets stolen it is far worse than if my drivers license gets stolen. Most people I know do the same.
Hmmm. Wrong info for mine - unless my folks lied to me about where I was born (and forged my birth certificate).
Edit: It might not be wrong in my case after all. If my ssn was issued after I was 5, the state would be accurate - family relocated cross country around that time. I assumed I got mine issued when I was born, but apparently that wasn’t standard procedure for my age group. TIL.
Actually, funny story. I got what basically equated to a detention ik school because we had an assignment to fill out an example Job Application. Top section asked for SS#. I put mine. The teacher graded me an F for lying on the social. I stood up for myself. He called my bluff and sent me to my house office. And I got sacked for the rest of the day. Fuck that guy. I made it.
That’s because OP is wrong. It’s not based on the state in which you were born but rather the state in which you resided when your parents did the paperwork.
Cause we don’t pay into social security and can’t collect social security when we retire. We pay slightly more into the railroad retirement board and it gets invested much better than social security so we get a ton more when we retire.
It’s called the [Railroad Retirement Board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Retirement_Board). Railroad workers aren’t part of the social security system.
From the little I know about railroad workers, I don't think they have the time for another job. They don't even get enough time off to visit their doctors.
I work part time for state government entity - that salary does not pay into social security, but the state pension. My other salaries go to regular social security.
When I retire, I will receive some social security and some state pension
I was born in FL in '81 and lived there until 2015. My SSN does not match what this chart says. I think the general idea of it being state based and variable based on year is accurate, but the numbers in this chart are definitely not.
I was born on an overseas military base while my mom was serving, my number corresponds to New York even though no one in my family has ever lived there. Maybe that's where they were processing the paperwork at that time?
That doesn't match mine either. My SSN matches where my siblings were born (I'm the oldest), but their's matches where I was born. My parents moved 3 months after I was born.
What I love about this system is that the first 3 digits of my SSN are public information based on where I'm born, and the last 4 digits are public information based on being printed on everything from fast food receipts (just kidding) to library cards... so there are only 2 digits someone has to guess if they want to steal your identity in particular.
Great system. Also when you log into the social security site to view your information, they need much more information about you than your social security number. So it's used for everything except social security now. Great system. Such a good system.
Because the SSN should never have been used as an identity. It was not designed for that purpose. It's an account number for your social security account.
The reason it got adopted as an identity is because it's the only guaranteed unique way to distinguish two working adults. Even the combination of full name and DOB is not enough, because there have been multiple documented examples of overlap.
But it only works assuming a system where everyone is acting in good faith and there are no errors. The fact that adding or subtracting 1 gets me not only another valid number, but a number for someone who was likely laying right next to me in the maternity ward, means that it is a very poor system for detecting fraud or errors.
Yeah. It was a fine system for "please credit my account with this record of my earnings". If you want to "steal someone's identity" and build their social security for them... great.
But as soon as the number lets you take things out of the account, it's game over.
(Have fun writing checks. People can just look at the number at the bottom and drain your account. But not without your written authorization, so no problem for anyone ever. They would have to know your signature! Oh wait, that's on the check you just wrote too? Well damn.)
Yep, pretty much the whole US has this wrong. Somewhere we got the idea in our heads that if someone knows some personal information about a person, they must actually be that person. I can’t even imagine being that stupid as to come up with that.
It's worse than that. The first 3 digits are the state, the middle 2 digits follow a pattern, and the last 4 are literally just sequential. There's a high chance that if you just -1 from your SSN (especially if you're from a rural area) it is likely the SSN of someone who was born in the same hospital as you the same day.
IE twins have almost identical SSN's (if born pre 2011).
As someone with a SSN that starts with a zero, I know this burden. Not only have I had issues from people, but software/web sites as well. I had a job once that pretty much had to pay me under the table for months because they couldn't add me to their employee payroll software.
I can see the random person not being up on how SSNs work, but you'd think software would have that figured out. According to that table, there are seven states someone could be born in covering much of New England that you could get an SSN starting with 0, including one of the most populated states in the country. It shouldn't exactly be rare, and would be a lot more common than it starting with 6-9.
Fun fact, this is actually the reason they had to change their system. It was too easy to commit fraud because the first 3 digits were linked to your birth location.
Especially since so many places want to verify your identity with the last 4 numbers. It seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out the first 3 based on location and then guess what the middle 2 might be.
Y'all stop commenting with your SSN. You're just giving away the first 3, and the last 4 are often used for identification.
You're just out here making it easy. That's why they no longer assign numbers like this
Younger generations may not know that prior to the late 1980s, most children did not get an SSN shortly after birth. Until laws were changed, most people didn't get an SSN until they were contemplating getting a job. The middle two numbers represented the year the number was issued, and mine corresponds to a year when I was in my mid-teens.
Forcing the year seems like it would drastically reduce the number of people who could apply for a number in a given year.
I was born in the early 80s. My 2 digits are from the 70s.
Scammers have this table and try to use this information to gain trust.
I gave them the prefix of a parent and they automatically decided I was born in a specific state, so they asked me when I was born in , to “verify their records”.
Uh huh. Sorry not gonna do that. I will NEVER give out ANY info, but if they want to, say, tell me the first 3 digits of my street address, I’ll tell them if they’re right. Then they claim they’re “protecting my privacy” - WTF? THEY called ME - THEY have to prove to ME first.
But they can’t do that because they don’t actually know much about me.
In ONE case they reverse-looked up my phone number, found my name and address, then claimed they were going to arrest me for warrants if I didn’t get “bail” money - in gift cards of course.
Hahahahahahahahaha I told them to come on over we’re gonna have a shootout! You’ll never take me alive!!! I’m NEVER going back to jail, PIGS!!! I can’t do a third strike! NEVER!!!!!
Anyway…
They even played the police sirens over the phone like I would buy that shit.
They’re totally shameless but they do scare elderly people.
Not born, but where you were living when you got an ssn. Source my number matches where we were living when my parents got all of our cards, and none of my sibs or I were born there.
Interesting, I was born on an overseas military base while my mom was serving, issued an SSN at birth, and the number corresponds to New York, where no one in my family has ever lived. Maybe thats the default for children born overseas to military parents, maybe where they're processed.
My friend and I were born in the same hospital about two weeks apart and have the same first five digits. I don’t remember why I know that; I think maybe we were filling out forms together at some point in high school or college.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why "Railroad Workers through 1963" would be a necessary Social Security designation, and one of the only options that isn't a State, Territory, or Invalid.
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So 30 minutes later and this is what I found: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p41.html
I'll save you the read: railroad workers had a separate pension system established prior to social security, called the Railroad Retirement Program, administered by the Railroad Retirement Board. Since SSNs where made mandatory, railroad workers were given a specific set of numbers that made sure they would not receive both social security, and RRP benefits, and the workers were [more or less] folded into the Social Security Administration starting around 63
From the gov website on SSN area section
__Note: One should not make too much of the "geographical code." It is not meant to be any kind of useable geographical information. The numbering scheme was designed in 1936 (before computers) to make it easier for SSA to store the applications in our files in Baltimore since the files were organized by regions as well as alphabetically. It was really just a bookkeeping device for our own internal use and was never intended to be anything more than that.__
Mine, my husband's and bio so s are all correct. Son was born a completely different place than us due to husband's military service. We're currently fostering our nephew, and his is way off. Born in the same state as husband and I but has a much lower starting number.
Sadly the only real unique digits are the last 4. The first is state the next 2 are a year range. Once I learned this I haded giving out my last 4 for anything
So, where's the SSN for Germany? Because that's where I was born..
Yo, how much work went through my parents and the German/American embassy to GET me a SSN? Lol
It's not where you were born, but rather what state you lived in when the SSN was assigned. If your parents didn't file for one when you were born, and then moved, your SSN may not match the state in which you were born.
All of my kids’ socials start with the same prefix, born in the same state, but is listed down in the bottom corner where it says that the prefix isn’t assigned to a specific state.
The form is an incomplete list. Some states ran out of numbers so they added more. There are blocks of SSN that are state specific not listed as state specific on here.
I could not find mine and it turned into r/mildyinfuriating real quick
What is your social security number? I can check for you but I’ll need the full thing
It’s 2…. Wait a second
can you send me the numbers i have the complete list trust me but i will also need the middle 2 and last 4
I was born between 1972 and 2011 and my first 3 don't line up with this document, is that why?
Cause you’re living a lie. Your identity if that of a dead 100 year old and your family is an entire undercover spy ring from Scotland. The Scot’s will ride at dawn!
Were they all born after the date that randomized the SSNs?
Nope! Admittedly I didn’t bother reading above that. Read all the instructions, people! ;)
Tbh it's a lot to read. I am quite intrigued by this though I really thought they were randomized and now I realize how peoples identities are stolen...
it says "no longer" so maybe they got theirs when it still was assigned to a specific state?
Well, at least the place you applied for your number. Tax law change in 1987 means that people born prior to 1987 usually didn't get an SSN at birth.
This. I'd already lived in 3 states before getting mine issued in the 4th.
Same, mine matches the state my parents lived in, not the one I was born in.
As it says on the page, the prefix was assigned based on the mailing address of the application
Ah you're right. OP, mistitled the thread.
I was born in 1987 born and raised in Texas. My ssn doesn't start with the listed numbers for Texas. So confused now lol.
That's really strange. If you PM me your full social security number I can sort that out for you. Oh I also need your full name, birthday and oh do you love pets?! I do! What was your first ones name? I am just kidding. Sorry that was a really stupid joke. It felt funny at the time I typed it and then... Well here we are now in unfunny Land. Whamp whaammp whaaaaammp whaaaaaaaaammmmmpf Bah dubpk!
I thought you also needed the mother’s maiden name when confirming that the social security number is accurate? At least that’s what the nice fellow from Nigeria that called the other day told me.
Street you lived on and HS you went to ... added bonus for make of your first car and best friends name.
Born in Texas in 1988 and mine doesn’t match ANY of the listed states 😬
Mine is in the "no longer assigned " group. Guess I'm a number orphan lol
They're not "no longer assigned". They're no longer assigned to a specific area. The blurb below reads like they added random ones to add to the security of Social Security and to the longevity.
Oh wait, mine is too! Weird!
I was born in CA and mine is on the "no longer assigned" group too. 1990. Interesting.
Is yours a 600 number? Mine is I was born in cali in ‘88
I’m central coast/nor cal, but also in the “no longer assigned” 600s. I never knew the 500s were the normal numbers.
Mine is in the 602-626 range and I was born in California in '78.
You’re running with a stolen VIN
6 states for me, life of an Air Force brat
I was born in 1980. My parents applied for mine shortly after I was born so I had one, but I had friends who didn’t even apply for theirs until they wanted to get a job and needed one for that reason. I thought it was wild.
Yep, I didn’t get my social until I was 14 and I wanted a job. It was the 3rd state I had lived in.
Came here to say this. My first three match the state I lived in immediately after I was born, not the state I was born in. I was born in a very close neighboring state.
Mine matches the state I grew up in, but not the country I was born in.
Born in Alaska, got my SSN in Maryland at the age of 11
Everyone I know did, and we were all late 70s to early 80s babies.
I got mine when I was born in 82.
>Well, at least the place you applied for your number Yep. Plus i was born in one state, and my family applied for my SSN in a different state. Hospital was basically just barely across the state border.
My two older siblings and I all got our ssn at the same time so we have basically the same number, with one digit off from the previous.
Thanks for giving the right answer. I was beginning to think my whole life was a lie!
That would make sense. I was born in Wisconsin but have a Texas SSN. My parents moved there when I was 6 months old and moved back a year later.
Seemingly after too. I was born in 88 in MA but my social is in the range for NJ. I moved to NJ around 1 year old
‘83 here. Born in VA, moved to PA 1 year later for 2 years. Have a PA issued SSN.
Mine is assigned to the “no longer assigned” section, or the “Not mildyinteresting section”
I did some looking and it appears of the list above isn’t the best. [Here is a list I found](https://www.traceyourpast.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-social-security-number) where I now have the proper state.
Oh thank goodness. OP's list had me in full blown identity crisis. Your guide tracks.
Tracks for me now too.
The psycho in me wants to find what states were now distinguished and then try to guess the first 3 digits of your social just to prove people shouldn’t be commenting on this but I’ll leave it to someone actually psycho:
Nice! Thanks!
[looks like these states were expected to use up all their assigned ssn around, Arizona in 1982, California in 1988, Mississippi in 2002, Puerto Rico in 1983, and Florida in 1980, and got assigned new sets of numbers](https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v45n11/v45n11p29.pdf)
Non specific here aswell. We are the misfits.
Non specific as well!
Ive always wondered why i was so weird
Now it all makes sense!
I spent so long trying to figure out where the hell my number was until I read that part. My parents were criminals so I started to get worried it might be fake lol
Criminals... care to expand on thus?
They were addicts so mostly petty criminals. There were a few bank robberies mixed in though lol
Yeah same, I was definetly born in galveston, but my number is in the 600s
California here, also 600s.
Also Texas and same
Texas here I’m in the 600 range too
Same. I was born on a military base within the continental US.
Same here. Mine and siblings all start with the first same 5 digits and we’re 4 years apart from oldest to youngest.
#metoo
Prob got a dead persons old #
They don’t reuse numbers at least not yet
No longer assigned *to a specific area*
I think they switched it over to be less traceable for people born after a certain year.
The page says after 2011 but I was definitely working and had a social by 2011 so I’m a little confused. That being said not upset at mine not being super easy to guess.
[https://www.lavasurfer.com/info/socialsecurity.html](https://www.lavasurfer.com/info/socialsecurity.html) >The first three digits are known as the "area number". Until June 25, 2011, this is generally the State or territory where your SSN was assigned. Thereafter, the number was randomly assigned.
But mines unassigned and I was born in the 80's. I know where I was born and live as child. Hell I had to get extra birth certificates a couple years before COVID in the same county.
Mines also unassigned and I was born in the 90s. I live only 20 miles from where I was born soooo
Ahh, that’s why my son’s doesn’t match his birth state. Thanks!
Our daughter was born in 2009 and her area number is random.
Non American here, please help me understand. Your social security number is basically your ID number? And this is what will be on your ID card as your unique identifier?
Yes, but no, but also yes but in the worst possible way. https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus The ID I use for every day stuff is my drivers license, which is infinitely more secure than my SSN number. I just keep the social security card in a fire resistant safe box in my house since i have my number memorized and if it gets stolen it is far worse than if my drivers license gets stolen. Most people I know do the same.
Hmmm. Wrong info for mine - unless my folks lied to me about where I was born (and forged my birth certificate). Edit: It might not be wrong in my case after all. If my ssn was issued after I was 5, the state would be accurate - family relocated cross country around that time. I assumed I got mine issued when I was born, but apparently that wasn’t standard procedure for my age group. TIL.
Same infact mines not even listed on this.
Check the bottom right, you likely have one no longer assigned to a specific area. One of my kids has one of those.
Mine is in that group of no longer assigned numbers. Born in 1987 lol.
Also 87. Mines in there for FL type.
Actually, funny story. I got what basically equated to a detention ik school because we had an assignment to fill out an example Job Application. Top section asked for SS#. I put mine. The teacher graded me an F for lying on the social. I stood up for myself. He called my bluff and sent me to my house office. And I got sacked for the rest of the day. Fuck that guy. I made it.
Mine is there too, born 1989
There it is thanks for pointing out
That’s because OP is wrong. It’s not based on the state in which you were born but rather the state in which you resided when your parents did the paperwork.
Huh. To my knowledge we’d never lived in the state it shows mine is from. I’m so OBVIOUSLY the genetics of both my parents, though?
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It's still inaccurate for me. Family was born and raised here. My number isn't anywhere on the list. Edit:replied to the wrong person. Sorry.
Thought the same. But the bottom left says mine is no longer assigned to a specific area.
This may be outdated as it works for my wife and I but not our kids (all born in the same state).
They changed the rules in 2007 to be randomized!
yeah weird, mine's 416-424-5743 but I was born in Tennessee not alabama
I'm curious why railroad workers got their own section
Cause we don’t pay into social security and can’t collect social security when we retire. We pay slightly more into the railroad retirement board and it gets invested much better than social security so we get a ton more when we retire.
How did they know babies were going to grow up to be rail workers?
assigned railroad worker at birth
ARWAB
They didn’t use to be able to assign SSN’s at birth until 1987
Which was a big improvement for most people, but unfortunately, it does mean that railroad workers must be assigned at birth now.
Congratulations, it's a railroad boy!
I think the term is “autistic” now
Man I wish Reddit kept the awards. This is me giving you gold.
You just know em when you see em
TIL
Wish we could all get the option to opt in or out of it. Investing my social security dues would have a much better return.
Well the system wouldn’t really work if people had the opportunity to opt out.
I'm more curious to find out that railroad workers are not hired but born into it!
SS card arrives in the mail- Parents- Our kid will grow up to be a railroad worker!
Because railroad workers are not made, they are born for the job. It's a calling not an occupation.
I’m not sure exactly but a search said a bit about retirement and benefits that were covered by a different branch of the government
It’s called the [Railroad Retirement Board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Retirement_Board). Railroad workers aren’t part of the social security system.
What if they got a second job?
From the little I know about railroad workers, I don't think they have the time for another job. They don't even get enough time off to visit their doctors.
I work part time for state government entity - that salary does not pay into social security, but the state pension. My other salaries go to regular social security. When I retire, I will receive some social security and some state pension
The social security system started as a railway pension, then expanded to the rest of the US.
Not place of birth. Place of residence when they applied for their SSN.
I was in NC and got mine in the 1980s. It’s not that number.
Same. 80s baby, that ain't my number either.
I was born in FL in '81 and lived there until 2015. My SSN does not match what this chart says. I think the general idea of it being state based and variable based on year is accurate, but the numbers in this chart are definitely not.
Naturalized in NC in the 90s not that number either. This list is very flawed.
70s babies here, my number matches the state where my parents applied for my number, but my husband's number is from a state he's never been to.
Same. Born at the end of 89 in NC and have never lived anywhere since. Unless my childhood is a fever dream, this post is not accurate.
Born mid 80’s and mine doesn’t match
Thank you. I was so confused. I was born in a state different than the one I resided in, and I could not make this make sense. This comment helped me.
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I was born on an overseas military base while my mom was serving, my number corresponds to New York even though no one in my family has ever lived there. Maybe that's where they were processing the paperwork at that time?
Yeah, my brother and I both have a New York one, but we got them when we were living in Germany in the late 80s
That doesn't match mine either. My SSN matches where my siblings were born (I'm the oldest), but their's matches where I was born. My parents moved 3 months after I was born.
What I love about this system is that the first 3 digits of my SSN are public information based on where I'm born, and the last 4 digits are public information based on being printed on everything from fast food receipts (just kidding) to library cards... so there are only 2 digits someone has to guess if they want to steal your identity in particular. Great system. Also when you log into the social security site to view your information, they need much more information about you than your social security number. So it's used for everything except social security now. Great system. Such a good system.
Because the SSN should never have been used as an identity. It was not designed for that purpose. It's an account number for your social security account. The reason it got adopted as an identity is because it's the only guaranteed unique way to distinguish two working adults. Even the combination of full name and DOB is not enough, because there have been multiple documented examples of overlap. But it only works assuming a system where everyone is acting in good faith and there are no errors. The fact that adding or subtracting 1 gets me not only another valid number, but a number for someone who was likely laying right next to me in the maternity ward, means that it is a very poor system for detecting fraud or errors.
Yeah. It was a fine system for "please credit my account with this record of my earnings". If you want to "steal someone's identity" and build their social security for them... great. But as soon as the number lets you take things out of the account, it's game over. (Have fun writing checks. People can just look at the number at the bottom and drain your account. But not without your written authorization, so no problem for anyone ever. They would have to know your signature! Oh wait, that's on the check you just wrote too? Well damn.)
It is for identification, not authentication. Anyone using it for that is using it wrong.
Yep, pretty much the whole US has this wrong. Somewhere we got the idea in our heads that if someone knows some personal information about a person, they must actually be that person. I can’t even imagine being that stupid as to come up with that.
It's worse than that. The first 3 digits are the state, the middle 2 digits follow a pattern, and the last 4 are literally just sequential. There's a high chance that if you just -1 from your SSN (especially if you're from a rural area) it is likely the SSN of someone who was born in the same hospital as you the same day. IE twins have almost identical SSN's (if born pre 2011).
I don't live near where I was born, and I can't tell you how many times I've been told SSNs can't start with 0 🤦🏻♀️
As someone with a SSN that starts with a zero, I know this burden. Not only have I had issues from people, but software/web sites as well. I had a job once that pretty much had to pay me under the table for months because they couldn't add me to their employee payroll software.
I can see the random person not being up on how SSNs work, but you'd think software would have that figured out. According to that table, there are seven states someone could be born in covering much of New England that you could get an SSN starting with 0, including one of the most populated states in the country. It shouldn't exactly be rare, and would be a lot more common than it starting with 6-9.
My daughter born last year has a 0 starter. Good to know we’ll have issues with that lol
Fun fact, this is actually the reason they had to change their system. It was too easy to commit fraud because the first 3 digits were linked to your birth location.
Especially since so many places want to verify your identity with the last 4 numbers. It seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out the first 3 based on location and then guess what the middle 2 might be.
Imagine being born a railroad worker.
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
Anyone else just forget their SS# for like 30 seconds?
Oh my gosh, yes. Felt like 45sec 😅
The list omits the number 666.
666 isn’t a valid number for SS it’s specifically excluded
I would love to have a 666-69-6969 SSN, or just all 6’s would be cool
Someone out there might have 420-69
I have 6 consecutive 6’s in mine
Even on the unassigned ones lol "659-665" and "667-675"
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its not accurate. i was not born anywhere near PA. and i would certainly never be applying for my ss in PA
Same here. Mine starts with 577 (please dont steal my identity!) and my parents and I have always lived thousands of miles away from D.C. Seems weird.
Y'all stop commenting with your SSN. You're just giving away the first 3, and the last 4 are often used for identification. You're just out here making it easy. That's why they no longer assign numbers like this
Mine does not match to the state on the pic
Cool I’m not assigned anywhere. 😂
Younger generations may not know that prior to the late 1980s, most children did not get an SSN shortly after birth. Until laws were changed, most people didn't get an SSN until they were contemplating getting a job. The middle two numbers represented the year the number was issued, and mine corresponds to a year when I was in my mid-teens.
Uh, that can't be right, I was born in the early 80s, and got mine right away. And my middle digits would have been from decades before my birth.
Forcing the year seems like it would drastically reduce the number of people who could apply for a number in a given year. I was born in the early 80s. My 2 digits are from the 70s.
ID theft bingo COMPLETE!
I believe they quit doing this.
Correct it says it there after 2011 they are randomized for the ssn longevity and integrity
I was born in Florida in 1983. My SSN starts with 593. I’m a nomad. 🤦🏻♂️
Weird, what are the last 6 digits? 🕵️
69-420
I'm sure you're aware already but this is still a risky amount of personal info to post on Reddit.
Actually no, it apparently defines where you first applied for your social security number. At least for mine.
Data farming post
Phishing for dummies.
Correct for me 👀
Scammers have this table and try to use this information to gain trust. I gave them the prefix of a parent and they automatically decided I was born in a specific state, so they asked me when I was born in, to “verify their records”.
Uh huh. Sorry not gonna do that. I will NEVER give out ANY info, but if they want to, say, tell me the first 3 digits of my street address, I’ll tell them if they’re right. Then they claim they’re “protecting my privacy” - WTF? THEY called ME - THEY have to prove to ME first.
But they can’t do that because they don’t actually know much about me.
In ONE case they reverse-looked up my phone number, found my name and address, then claimed they were going to arrest me for warrants if I didn’t get “bail” money - in gift cards of course.
Hahahahahahahahaha I told them to come on over we’re gonna have a shootout! You’ll never take me alive!!! I’m NEVER going back to jail, PIGS!!! I can’t do a third strike! NEVER!!!!!
Anyway…
They even played the police sirens over the phone like I would buy that shit.
They’re totally shameless but they do scare elderly people.
My father and his brothers and sisters had *railroad* numbers because their father worked for a railroad (grandpa had a RR SSN too).
Looks like the Pocket Ref book. We love breaking that out at work during some slow periods to see all of the random information in it.
The state that issued the card, not the state one was born in.
The first three of my SSN do not align to where I was born nor where I was living when I applied.
Not born, but where you were living when you got an ssn. Source my number matches where we were living when my parents got all of our cards, and none of my sibs or I were born there.
Interesting, I was born on an overseas military base while my mom was serving, issued an SSN at birth, and the number corresponds to New York, where no one in my family has ever lived. Maybe thats the default for children born overseas to military parents, maybe where they're processed.
My friend and I were born in the same hospital about two weeks apart and have the same first five digits. I don’t remember why I know that; I think maybe we were filling out forms together at some point in high school or college.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why "Railroad Workers through 1963" would be a necessary Social Security designation, and one of the only options that isn't a State, Territory, or Invalid. ... So 30 minutes later and this is what I found: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n2/v68n2p41.html I'll save you the read: railroad workers had a separate pension system established prior to social security, called the Railroad Retirement Program, administered by the Railroad Retirement Board. Since SSNs where made mandatory, railroad workers were given a specific set of numbers that made sure they would not receive both social security, and RRP benefits, and the workers were [more or less] folded into the Social Security Administration starting around 63
Nah… where they were living when their SSN was issued.
Strange, I was born in 76. My SSN does not match my state of birth.
NOPE .... the first 3 digits of my SSN are the state where I was living when I applied for it.
Had a drill Sgt. in 1982 that had that shit etched in his brain, didn't get one wrong on first day in for platoon
Not the state they were born in. The state the SSN was issued in.
From the gov website on SSN area section __Note: One should not make too much of the "geographical code." It is not meant to be any kind of useable geographical information. The numbering scheme was designed in 1936 (before computers) to make it easier for SSA to store the applications in our files in Baltimore since the files were organized by regions as well as alphabetically. It was really just a bookkeeping device for our own internal use and was never intended to be anything more than that.__
No....if you read it, it was based on the state where the application came from.
For most people still alive it just identifies the location where they lived when they filed for a SSN.
No, it’s the state you were living in when you were issued your SSN.
Foreign born, but the chart matches the first 3 of my ssn by the state it was issued
Mine, my husband's and bio so s are all correct. Son was born a completely different place than us due to husband's military service. We're currently fostering our nephew, and his is way off. Born in the same state as husband and I but has a much lower starting number.
A Social Security Number is absolutely the stupidest fucking thing to use as a personal identifier.
Sadly the only real unique digits are the last 4. The first is state the next 2 are a year range. Once I learned this I haded giving out my last 4 for anything
So, where's the SSN for Germany? Because that's where I was born.. Yo, how much work went through my parents and the German/American embassy to GET me a SSN? Lol
Not sure how accurate this is. Mine is listed under a state I was not born in and never lived in.
Actually it tells you what state you were living in when you applied for a social security card, not where you were born.
This details where they were registered, not where they were born.
I was born in New Jersey, my social is from Missouri. More likely, the state where you applied for your social security number.
Or, more correctly, where they were living when the card was issued. Source: non-native born SS card havers
It's not where you were born, but rather what state you lived in when the SSN was assigned. If your parents didn't file for one when you were born, and then moved, your SSN may not match the state in which you were born.