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I have my social security for long time and never know what the numbers means?

2006-10-03 17:07:36 · 5 answers · asked by armyvet 1 in Politics & Government Government

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the first three have to do with the area you were born in...the second two I don't know (and not the year you were born in my case at least) and I don't know about the last four.

this is what i found

Structure
Information from (from http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html)
The Social Security number is a nine-digit number in the format "111-11-1111." The number is divided into three parts.

The Area Number is assigned by the geographical region. Prior to 1975, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the office code in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the in the area where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant's mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.
Generally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward, so that people on the east coast had the lowest numbers and those on the west coast had the highest numbers. As the areas assigned to a locality are exhausted, new areas from the pool are assigned, so some states have noncontiguous groups of numbers.

Complete list of area number groups from the Social Security Administration
The middle two digits are the group number. They have no special geographic or data significance but merely serve to break the number into conveniently sized blocks for orderly issuance.
There is a theory that the two middle digits can be used to identify a person's ethnic background. This is debunked as an urban legend on snopes.com as well as on the Social Security Administration's website.
The group numbers range from 01 to 99. However, they are not assigned in consecutive order. For administrative reasons, group numbers are issued in the following order:

ODD numbers from 01 through 09
EVEN numbers from 10 through 98
EVEN numbers from 02 through 08
ODD numbers from 11 through 99
As an example, group number 98 will be issued before 11.

The last four digits are serial numbers. They represent a straight numerical sequence of digits from 0001-9999 within the group.

2006-10-03 17:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Deana G 5 · 2 0

The first three are a code for whatever geographic location you were born at. The middle two are the result of an equation that factors in your birth year. The last four are random.

2006-10-03 17:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa Faye Chardonnay 4 · 1 0

Tamara is right in a sense.. the middle is for the year you were born, but it is coded in a way so that your exact year might not be there. the first are for the state and last are random numbers.. It is a very organized number

2006-10-03 17:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by pink9364 5 · 1 0

I know that the last four numbers are completely random. The first three numbers I believe are for the state you were born in, and the middle two numbers represent as far as I know, the year you were born.

2006-10-03 17:12:12 · answer #4 · answered by Tamara 2 · 2 1

ALL random

2006-10-03 17:15:11 · answer #5 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0 1

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