[SIZE="3"]For the sake of the YA books I'm placing Jack's birthdate in 1969. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that your child needed a SSN to be deductible on your taxes, so most kids in Jack's generation didn't have one. By happenstance, Jack always worked off the books, so he never needed one. Colleges didn't require it back then.[/SIZE]

Way to go Paul! I knew you would find a solution. Now figure out how all of us "sheeple" can get around it!

Aha--see, I knew there was a valid answer.

Thank you Mr. Wilson. The books have a whole new meaning to me now. hahahah.

Well I'm glad we cleared that up! Now to the important stuff: How's Joe-pa's team look for this Fall?

Country's gettin' slack. I got my SS card in the 7th grade. When I was 19, I mistook it for my draft card and burned it.

Good thing you didn't mix up your comma placement ......

"Country's gettin' slack. I got my SS card in the 7th grade, when I was 19. I mistook it for my draft card and burned it." :p

[SIZE="3"]For the sake of the YA books I'm placing Jack's birthdate in 1969. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that your child needed a SSN to be deductible on your taxes, so most kids in Jack's generation didn't have one. By happenstance, Jack always worked off the books, so he never needed one. Colleges didn't require it back then.[/SIZE]

As I recall, the University of Maryland required a SSN, which was used as a student ID number, no later than 1972, which was my Freshman year. Was this atypical?

Good thing you didn't mix up your comma placement ......

"Country's gettin' slack. I got my SS card in the 7th grade, when I was 19. I mistook it for my draft card and burned it." :p

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Jimbow, if you don't already have this book, you should look for it. You might enjoy it. The title alone is pretty darn amusing.

Well I'm glad we cleared that up! Now to the important stuff: How's Joe-pa's team look for this Fall?

I've been absent posting for a few days. To answer your question: Yes, I went to PSU.

As far as JOEPA's team for the fall, I don't know. He lost a lo of Seniors last year and I think last year was kind of a fluke. He had a great Defense and they got a lot done for them.

To put it simply, Joepa should have retired about 6 years ago. Hey, I'm an alum, I can say that.

I didn't get a SSN until 1996 and I was almost 30 years old at that point.

How is that possible, you ask? Well, that's when I first started working in the States. Until then, I had only worked in Canada. I did have a SIN (Social Insurance Number) though, ever since I was a young adult.

I was born in 1972, my brother in 1974. My dad got SSNs for us as toddlers and my mom thought he was nuts. So it definitely was not a common thing in the 70s for babies to get SSNs like they do now.

BTW, my brother's SSN and mine are only one number apart! It has caused some mishaps, especially before I got married and changed my name.

Lisa

My parents had gotten my SSN in the early sixty's. It had something to do with me getting sick and ending up in the hospital for a month. Now that I look back on it, it probably had to do with insurance.

How is this possible? He went to college for a few years? How does he not have a SS #?

Just wondering.

Anyone?

He might have gotten someone else's by mistake and never told anyone. Somehow my brother got a social security number already owned by someone born in Pennsylvania with the same name who was about 10 years older. He kept using it up until 2000 when his mortgage broker pointed out that the first 3 numbers were for someone born in Pennsylvania, not Montana. My brother did some searching and found that the guy in Pennsylvania was mentally disabled and had never attempted to use his number to borrow money or in any other way that would show up on a credit record. After he closed on his house my brother notified the social security administration and they issued him a new card with a new number. When he tried to borrow money for furniture a few months later he was declined because he had no credit history, 15 years of on-time payments stayed with the old number. So from that point he's kept on using the old number.