Some people believe the next two digits, called the group number, helps identify a person’s race. Area numbers assigned before 1972 reflect the state where you applied for your number otherwise, they are based upon the Social Security card application mailing address zip-code.Ĥ. The first three digits of a Social Security number are known as the area number. Over 5.5 million new numbers are assigned every year.ģ. Since 1936, over 420 million different Social Security numbers have been issued.Ģ.
While you were out enjoying your weekend, I was researching the real story behind our Social Security numbers - and here’s what I found out:ġ. If you’re like me, you’ve wondered if there was any rhyme or reason to how Social Security card numbers are determined. However, if you asked those same folks to recite their Social Security number, every last one of them could do it forward and backward - even after the kegs were empty.
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Now I’ll wager that, if you poll a room full of people at a triple-keg Super Bowl party, more than half wouldn’t be able to tell you the license plate number of their car - and that’s before the kick-off. This weekend I was looking through the safe that holds all of my most important documents, like family birth certificates, insurance policies and the secret recipe for mom’s sauce, when I ran across my Social Security card. President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
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