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We buy sell used manufacturing machinery, industrial equipment and surplus items. New inventory daily and we offer a 30day satisfaction guarantee. Created merely to keep track of the earnings history of U. S. workers for Social Security entitlement and benefit computation purposes, it has come to be used as a nearly universal identifier. Assigned at birth, the SSN enables government agencies to identify individuals in their records and businesses to track an individuals financial information. This article explores the history and meaning of the SSN and the Social Security card, as well as the Social Security Administrations SSAs SSN master file, generally known as the Numident. The article also traces the historical expansion of SSN use and the steps SSA has taken to enhance SSN integrity. The author is with the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, Social Security Administration. Acknowledgments The author would like to thank SSA Historian Larry De. Witt, along with Kitty Chilcoat and the other reviewers in the Office of Legislation and Regulatory Affairs for their excellent suggestions. The author also wishes to thank the many employees in the Office of Income Support Programs and the Office of Earnings and Enumeration and Administrative Systems who reviewed the article for technical correctness. The findings and conclusions presented in the Bulletin are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Social Security Administration. Introduction. Selected Abbreviations. DHSDepartment of Homeland Security. Do. SDepartment of State. EABEnumeration at birth. Ea. EEnumeration at entry. EINEmployer identification number. EOExecutive order. FTCFederal Trade Commission. INSImmigration and Naturalization Service. IRSInternal Revenue Service. IRTPAIntelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2. P. L. Public Law. SS 4. Application for an employer identification number. SS 5. Application for a Social Security number. SSASocial Security Administration. SSNSocial Security number. USESU. S. Employment Service. WPAWorks Progress Administration. The Social Security number SSN was created in 1. U. S. workers, for use in determining Social Security benefit entitlement and computing benefit levels. Since then, use of the SSN has expanded substantially. Today the SSN may be the most commonly used numbering system in the United States. As of December 2. Social Security Administration SSA had issued over 4. SSNs, and nearly every legal resident of the United States had one. The SSNs very universality has led to its adoption throughout government and the private sector as a chief means of identifying and gathering information about an individual. How did the SSN come to be, and why has it become an unofficial national identifier This article explores the history and meaning of the SSN and the Social Security card, along with SSAs SSN master data file, generally known as the Numident. The article also traces how use of the SSN has expanded since its introduction and the steps SSA has taken to enhance the integrity of the SSN process. Crafting the SSNAt its inception, the SSNs only purpose was to uniquely identify U. S. workers, enabling employers to submit accurate reports of covered earnings for use in administering benefits under the new Social Security program. That is still the primary purpose for the SSN. However, creating the SSN scheme and assigning SSNs to U. S. workers was no easy task. Passage of the Social Security Act in August 1. Many said the task was impossible SSA 1. SSA 1. 96. 5, 2. 6. Employers were to begin to deduct payroll taxes from workers wages in January 1. SSN process. 1 Besides clarifying program policy, the agency needed to hire and train employees 7,5. March 1. 93. 8, set up facilities, develop public education programs, and create an earnings tracking system Corson 1. Establishing the Social Security infrastructure was impeded for 3 months by the lack of funds due to a filibuster of the 1. Deficiency Bill a government wide appropriation bill similar to current Omnibus Budget Reconciliation bills by Senator Huey Long DLA. The Roosevelt administration circumvented this obstacle by engineering a Works Progress Administration WPA allotment of 1. Department of Labor and by borrowing staff from the demobilizing National Recovery Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the National Youth Administration. On February 9, 1. Congress finally passed the deficiency bill containing the fiscal year 1. Social Security Board precursor of the SSA, and Roosevelt signed it on February 1. As late as March 1. Social Security Boards Bureau of Old Age Benefitsincluding the director and his assistant Mc. Kinley and Frase 1. Additionally, the U. S. Supreme Court declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act invalid in January 1. Social Security Act might also be declared unconstitutional Mc. Kinley and Frase 1. SSA 1. 95. 2. It would not be until May 1. Supreme Court decisions cemented the constitutionality of the Social Security Act SSAn. Canon Pixma Mp287 Printer Software Download on this page. Range Rover Sport Brochure Pdf'>2011 Range Rover Sport Brochure Pdf. One of the first steps in administering the Social Security Act was to devise a means to track the earnings of each individual, as Social Security benefit computations consider a workers earnings from 1. Why didnt the Social Security Board just use an individuals name and address as the identifier The deficiency of such a scheme was already well known. A 1. 93. 7 publication recounts, A recent news account states that the Fred Smiths of New York City have had so much trouble in being identified by their creditors, the courts, and even their friends, that they have joined together in forming the Fred Smiths, Incorporated, to serve as a clearing house for their identification problems. Some government agencies, such as the U. S. War and Navy Departments, the Veterans Administration for paying pensions and for adjusted compensation certificates, and the Post Office Department for Postal Savings depositors used fingerprints for identification. However, the use of fingerprints was associated in the public mind with criminal activity, making this approach undesirable Wyatt and Wandel 1. A numbering scheme was seen as the practical alternative. Thus, the employer identification number EIN and the SSN were created. Today we take the 9 digit composition of the SSN as a given, but in 1. In early November 1. Social Security Board adopted an identifier composed of 3 alphabetic characters representing geographic areas and 5 numeric characters. However, the Board made this decision without consulting other federal agencies. The U. S. Employment Service USES, the Census Bureau, the Central Statistical Board, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics all used numeric symbols without alphabetic characters since most standard statistical machines used this scheme. With alphabetic symbols, these agencies, as well as many private companies, would have had to buy new machines. Only two companies manufactured tabulating machines using a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and the government had previously brought suit against them under the Sherman Antitrust Act for dividing market territory between them Mc. Kinley and Frase 1. The Board called a meeting of all interested agencies to discuss the numeration issues. In a November 1. 93. Mc. Kinley and Frase 1. On December 1. 7, 1. Board approved the 9 digit option Mc. Kinley and Frase 1. The Board planned to use the year one attained age 6.