what government agency issued the first social security cards?
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Since the Social Security Board did not have a network of field offices in late 1936, it contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to distribute and assign the first batch of Social Security numbers through its 45,000 local post offices around the country
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Social Security administration
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In the United States, a Social Security number (or SSN) is a number issued to citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an agency of the federal government. Ostensibly, its primary purpose is tracking working individuals for taxation purposes and to track Social Security benefits. However, in recent years, the SSN has become a de facto national identification number, even though it is not supposed to be used as a form of identification.\nGenerally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward. So people on the east coast have the lowest numbers and those on the west coast have the highest numbers. As the areas assigned to a locality are exhausted, new areas from the pool are assigned, so some states have noncontiguous groups of numbers.\n\nComplete list of area number groups from the Social Security Administration \nThe middle two digits are the group number. They have no special geographic or data significance but merely serve to break the number into conveniently sized blocks for orderly issuance. \nThere is a theory that the two middle digits can be used to identify a person's ethnic background. African Americans, Asians and people of color will almost always have an odd middle number, while Caucasians will have an even number. This is debunked as an urban legend on snopes.com. \nThe group numbers range from 01 to 99. However, they are not assigned in consecutive order. For administrative reasons, group numbers are issued in the following order:\n\nODD numbers from 01 through 09\n\nEVEN numbers from 10 through 98\n\nEVEN numbers from 02 through 08\n\nODD numbers from 11 through 99\n\nAs an example, group number 98 will be issued before 11.\n\n\n\n\nThe last four digits are serial numbers. They represent a straight numerical sequence of digits from 0001-9999 within the group.
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Hello,\n\nHere is your answer:\n\nIn the United States\n\nThe United States did not have social security on a national level until 1935, when the Social Security Act was passed as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal program. The act established two social insurance programs: a federal-state program of unemployment compensation and a federal program of old-age retirement insurance. It also provided for federal grants to assist the states with programs for the disabled, the aged, child welfare services, public health services, and vocational rehabilitation. The compulsory old-age insurance paid benefits proportionate to prior earnings for persons over 65, with a reserve fund being accumulated through payroll taxes on employers and employees; the rate of the tax was originally set at 1%.\n\nThe original Social Security Act of 1935 covered only workers in commercial and industrial occupations, but since then several major amendments have increased the categories of persons eligible for benefits. The amendment of 1939 provided for benefits to the dependents and survivors of workers; an amendment in 1950 broadened the coverage to include full-time farm and domestic workers, many self-employed persons, employees of state and local governments, and employees of nonprofit organizations; later amendments extended coverage to members of the armed forces and to self-employed professionals; and a 1957 amendment provided benefits to insured workers 50 years of age and older who became permanently and totally disabled. The age of eligibility for retirement benefits was lowered from 65 to 62, but with lower benefits for persons retiring before 65.\n\nIn 1965, Congress enacted the Medicare program, providing medical benefits for persons over the age of 65, and an accompanying Medicaid program for the indigent regardless of age. A 1972 amendment tied increases in Social Security retirement benefits to increases in the Consumer Price Index. In 1974, Social Security insurance was taken over by the Social Security Administration, and in 1983 an amendment allowed partial taxation of the benefits given to upper-income recipients. In 1999, payroll deductions for Social Security were set at 6.2% of annual wages below $72,600, and payroll deductions for Medicare were 1.45% of annual wages (no upper limit), with employers contributing matching amounts.\n\nSocial Security funds are invested in federal securities, mainly long-term bonds. In 1997 a government advisory panel proposed that some of the revenues be invested in stocks and bonds to generate higher returns. The panel was divided over whether the money should be invested by the government or by individuals, as well as the amount that should be shifted from government bonds. Both approaches have their critics. Some regard government investment in stocks as a potential source of intrusive federal influence on U.S. businesses; others feel that allowing individuals to invest their Social Security funds would endanger the minimal postretirement "safety net" for all workers that the program is designed to provide if individuals invest unwisely. President George W. Bush, who campaigned for personal Social Security investment accounts, appointed (2001) a commission that offered several options for allowing individual investments in stocks and bonds as part of the Social Security program and for securing the program's financial health; it estimated that it would take as much as $3 trillion of additional revenue over the next 75 years and reductions in guaranteed benefits to accomplish both goals.\n\nUnderlying these proposals is the anticipation that the costs of the program as presently structured will outstrip the revenues raised and invested in the early to mid-21st cent. and that benefits will have to be paid from revenues alone, which are expected to be inadequate. If this occurs, Social Security will place a greater burden on the federal budget, and benefits may n
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Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 \n\n(Hope that helps)
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http://www.ssa.gov\nSocial Security Administration  \nOfficial site for the Social Security Adminstration featuring online forms, benefits information, and other services.
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They have picture IDs, some of them and they can get SS cards no problem even if they are from another country. The government does not care when issuing a SS card what country the person is from.\nGo in with your foreign birth certificate and a drivers license and you get a SS card.\nThen you can open a bank account, get a car loan, get a job and live like a US citizen.\nIf they didn't give them SS cards, the problem would be solved!
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We already have this, it is called the Social Security Card.\n\nEvery employer can call the SSA and verify the information of a given social security number.  Our government has just made it so difficult to do this that most employers will not take the time.\n\nWhen you are hired for a job, you are supposed to provide I-9 documentation.  You can use a passport, or state issued id & social security card (not just number), or birth certificate & ss card, etc.  \n\nThere are already laws and fines in place regarding improperly documenting your workers.  The problem is our elected officials would rather waste our money & time by presenting completely new regulations (justifying their jobs) instead of making the appropriate government administration enforce the laws we already have.\n\nPoliticians are becoming better and better at doing nothing but creating redundent worthless laws.  And we keep re-electing them.\n\nSo I would NOT vote for this ridiculous limit on my freedom and waste of the American taxpayers' monies.
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That's correct.  Social Security numbers, cards, names, etc. are under SSA.  Check on-line first, or try local ssa offices if you live near larger city.  The website will give you the information and documentation you need to change name.
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Go to their website, www.ssa.gov and on the left side of the screen, there's a link about getting a card.  According to what I read, you need to mail or take the paperwork to their office.  You can download the SS form, however.
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It depends on the situation, if you are applying for your SS card for the first time you HAVE to complete the application and go to your local SS office, however if you are applying to replace a lost or stolen card, you can mail in the completed application, along with copies of proof of identity.  Hope this helps!!!  The application can be downloaded at the url below.
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It is commonly called the Green Card not because of its current color, but because of the original color of the card many years ago.\n\nGreen Card refers to the official card issued by the US government to lawful permanent residents (immigrants) as evidence of their authorization to live and work in the United States. It is officially called Form I-551, the Permanent Resident Card (formerly known as the Alien Registration Receipt Card).
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United States\n \nConsumer protection laws often mandate the posting of notices, such as this one which appears in all automotive repair shops in CaliforniaIn the United States there are a variety of laws on the federal or state levels that deal with consumer affairs including the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Truth in Lending Act, Fair Billing Act, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and much more. Federal consumer protection laws are usually enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.\n\nAt the state level, many states have a Department of Consumer Affairs devoted to regulating certain industries and protecting consumers who regularly use goods and services from those industries.\n\nFor example, in the U.S. state of California, the Department of Consumer Affairs [1] regulates about 2.3 million professionals in over 230 different professions through its 40 regulatory entities. In addition, California encourages its consumers to act as private attorneys general through the liberal provisions of its Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Cal. Civil Code § 1750 et seq.\n\n\n\nThe Social Security Number (SSN) was created in 1936 as a nine-digit account number assigned by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the purpose of administering the Social Security laws. SSNs were first intended for use exclusively by the federal government as a means of tracking earnings to determine the amount of Social Security taxes to credit to each worker's account. Over time, however, SSNs were permitted to be used for purposes unrelated to the administration of the Social Security system. For example, in 1961 Congress authorized the Internal Revenue Service to use SSNs as taxpayer identification numbers.\n\nIn response to growing concerns over the accumulation of massive amounts of personal information, Congress passed the Privacy Act of 1974. Among other things, this Act makes it unlawful for a governmental agency to deny a right, benefit, or privilege merely because the individual refuses to disclose his SSN. \n\nSection 7 of the Privacy Act further provides that any agency requesting an individual to disclose his SSN must "inform that individual whether that disclosure is mandatory or voluntary, by what statutory authority such number is solicited, and what uses will be made of it." At the time of its enactment, Congress recognized the dangers of widespread use of SSNs as universal identifiers. In its report supporting the adoption of this provision, the Senate Committee stated that the widespread use of SSNs as universal identifiers in the public and private sectors is "one of the most serious manifestations of privacy concerns in the Nation." Short of prohibiting the use of the SSN outright, the provision in the Privacy Act attempts to limit the use of the number to only those purposes where there is clear legal authority to collect the SSN. It was hoped that citizens, fully informed where the disclosure was not required by law and facing no loss of opportunity in failing to provide the SSN, would be unlikely to provide an SSN and institutions would not pursue the SSN as a form of identification.\n\nLarge amounts of personal information, including tax information, credit information, school records, and medical records, is keyed to your Social Security Number. Because this data is often sensitive, you should keep it private.\n\nMy Social Security Number: How Secure Is It?, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Fact Sheet 10. \nYour Social Security Number and Card, SSA Publication No. 05-10002, July 2004. \nChris Hibbert, Frequently Asked Questions on SSNs and Privacy, CPSR, January 2004. \nEPIC Privacy Act of 1974 Page. \nDepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens 108-35 (MIT 1973) (Social Security Number as a Standard Universal Identifier and Recommendations Regarding Use of Social Security Number). \nThe
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The Arthur Administration enacted the first general Federal immigration law. Arthur approved a measure in 1882 excluding paupers, criminals, and lunatics. Congress suspended Chinese immigration for ten years, later making the restriction permanent.
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Go to your local Social Security office.  If you have NEVER had a social security  number, you can reieve one right away; if however you've had one before but lost the card it can take 2 to 4 weeks to get it back.
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I would visit a local SS office and bring some good ID like a picture driver's license.\n\nA web site would be an easy way for potential fraud.
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It is because back in the day you didn't get your ss# at birth so it is due to where your mailing address was when your parents filed it. Mine is a New York even though I have never been there because it was a APO address.