Social Security card?

[scottmandue]

So we refinanced the mortgage paid off everything, cut up the credit cards and starting over.

Opening a credit union savings account.
Fill out the form online, usual stuff, name, address, SS#, drivers license.
They send back an email "we need you to upload us scans of your drivers licence, a utility bill, and you social security card?
I had to pause... uh, I'm not even sure where that is! (wife says it is locked in safe at home).

I have been asked for my SS# many times over the years, but I don't think anyone has wanted to SEE the card in decades.

How about you, do you know where your social security card is?

[Evans, Marv]

Yeah, mine in in my fire safe with my original '50s signature on it. I actually haven't had to physically show it to anybody since receiving it. Assuming the email is legit, you might just go in & talk to them about it. If you can't locate it, I'm guessing there is a way of getting a replacement.

[wswartzwel]

Arkansas has new Drivers licenses, that are supposed to be more secure... I had to show my SS card and Birth Certificate, as well as numerous other forms of ID to get my license renewed. Not sure how I have managed to keep up with those things all these years.

[wdfifteen]

I have my SS card, issued in 1966 when I got my first W-2 job. The came with two cards printed on a perforated sheet of light cardboard. A few years ago a contemporary (and friend) who hasn't seen his SS cards in decades and wanted one, asked me to scan it, PS my info off of it, and email him a tiff. I'm sure he only made a legit one for himself, but it is insanely easy to create the old cards.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Yeah, mine in in my fire safe with my original '50s signature on it. I actually haven't had to physically show it to anybody since receiving it. Assuming the email is legit, you might just go in & talk to them about it. If you can't locate it, I'm guessing there is a way of getting a replacement.

There is a SS office about ten miles from my house... I have toyed with the idea of getting one of those new fangled plastic SS cards... but I thought no one has asked to see it so never bothered.

This is the credit union:

https://www.golden1.com/home/default

"The Golden 1 Credit Union is California's leading financial cooperative, and the sixth largest credit union in the U.S. Founded by a group of California state employees in 1933"

[Chocaholic]

I haven't seen my SS card in more than 40 years. No idea where it is and have gotten this far through life without it.

[stomachmonkey]

Last time I saw the original was 33 years ago as it sank to the bottom of Oyster Bay Cove in my wallet in the back pocket of the right half of my pants.

A typical summer Saturday night on the boat with beers and chicks.

My license was in there as well which became problematic after we moored the boat and the local popo spotted me walking through the marina parking lot wearing only the left half of my pants.

The replacement which I only got 8 years ago, because TX would not give me a drivers license without one, is wherever my wife keeps that stuff.

Pretty sure it's somewhere in the house.

[Pazuzu]

I have my card, but what use is it? The name can be faked, and the signature...
Well, it was the early 80s, and I was 14, and the signature on that card is some mix of Tolkien style script with some heavy metal cover art mixed in. That "signature" will do me nothing right now, because it wasn't so much a "signature" as a "artistic restyling of my name"...


so why ask for it?

[masraum]

I've got the SS card that was the original from when I first got a SSN. I carried it in my wallet for years. These days, it stays at home. It's basically just a piece of card stock with some printing. Likely the most easily forged document that anyone could have.

[GH85Carrera]

I know precisely where mine is. I have had to show it just once since I got it when I was 13. The one time I showed it was to get a passport. Mine was never signed, just put away with the original staple to a bigger piece of heavy paper. It has big instruction to NOT laminate the card.

I have been asked for my SS number many dozens of times over the years. I tell it to my place of employment and my bank. And obviously it is on my tax forms. Everyone else that has asked I tell them it is a funny number 555-55-5555. They have a choice to take that or take a flying leap.

Only your financial institution and your employer have a right to see the card or the number.

The biggest irony is once I get a medicare card they use the SS number as your medicare number. Only the federal government could be that stupid.

[gr8fl4porsche]

We require a photo copy of the actual card for employment.

Many of our new hires have to go to the county gov't to get a copy.

[motion]

I applied online for a credit union membership recently. They asked that I upload my SS card. I have no idea where it is, so I whipped up a fake one using Photoshop. They denied me.

[vash]

yup.

damn miracle i didnt lose mine. now i married "Miss Organized" and it is in a mini folder in the safe. i think mine is the original my mom handed to me when i flew the coop.

[vash]

Originally Posted by motion

I applied online for a credit union membership recently. They asked that I upload my SS card. I have no idea where it is, so I whipped up a fake one using Photoshop. They denied me.

super funny..and probably not so legal..hahaha..
funny. i would have probably misspelled "security".

[Tobra]

A few years ago I was asked to be a proctor at a student run clinic. I had to be volunteer clinical faculty at UC Davis for the position. They wanted a certified copy of my birth certificate, copy of SS card, copy of medical license and driver's license. Had to send away to get the birth certificate, the copy I had was not certified by whoever it was I sent the $21 to get it. I then had to go to the SS office to get them to send me a new SS card that nobody has asked to see it in at least 25 years. Took a few months to get everything together. Sent it off, and did not hear anything for over a year. Next correspondence from them was to notify them they were not renewing my volunteer clinical faculty privileges due to lack of activity. First I heard from them was that letter. I called them and apparently they forgot to mail the acceptance letter out. Had to prove I was an US citizen to provide free care, primarily to illegal aliens. Go figure.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

I have my card, but what use is it? The name can be faked, and the signature...
Well, it was the early 80s, and I was 14, and the signature on that card is some mix of Tolkien style script with some heavy metal cover art mixed in. That "signature" will do me nothing right now, because it wasn't so much a "signature" as a "artistic restyling of my name"...


so why ask for it?

Yep, like many of you 'the organized one' (my wife) had it in the fire safe.

Funny to see the 1960's elementary school cursive signature

May want a passport someday soon so might want to look into getting a new one.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Yeah, mine in in my fire safe with my original '50s signature on it. I actually haven't had to physically show it to anybody since receiving it. Assuming the email is legit, you might just go in & talk to them about it. If you can't locate it, I'm guessing there is a way of getting a replacement.

Get it out...like my old card it will probably say "Not for identification"...ain't that a hoot?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Get it out...like my old card it will probably say "Not for identification"...ain't that a hoot?

Yep, mine says that right on it.

I had to provide it for my passport as a form of identification.

Typical government thing. Logic has nothing to do with anything for the bureaucrats.

[fastfredracing]

I laminated mine years ago. Carry it in my wallet every day. Now, that I have typed that out, I am realizing what a bad idea that is . I am going to stash it in the safe right now .

[M.D. Holloway]

Ya used to be able to get metal ones. I remember ads in comic books. You could send away and get the most awesome shyt from comic books!