I have read the various posts about Jack not having, or needing, a Social Security number at birth, going to college, etc.
I recently read something somewhere (possibly on this very forum) that it had pretty much been established that Jack's character's birth year was 1969....
I myself was born in 1965 and I was assigned a SSN at birth..... if Jack was born four years later, he would have been as well.....
according to the YA books, which have Jack at age 14 in 1983..... well, in 1983 I went to college and you had to have a SSN to apply for college unless you were a foreign exchange student.... so at some point he must have had one under his original birth name and whatnot.
So I just figure he never used it, and the reason he can't just start using it now is because the IRS will be like, where have you been since 1988, Jack?
if he had NEVER used it, he would have an easier time beginning to use it, but he MUST have used it for his first year of college, at least....
oh well, just another of Jack's mysteries...
Gina