This might be a dumb question, but I really have no idea?! Does the hospital or someone help you do it? Or do you have to do that yourself? If so, how do you go about getting your newborn a SSN?
2006-11-17 05:39:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The hospitol should take care of it if not you can apply for one at the social security office you should just need your childs birth certificate to apply.
2006-11-17 06:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a dumb question. I wondered the same thing, when I was pregnant with my first. When you fill out the paper work at the hospital, you can choose to have a social security card sent to your home for your baby. The administration department at the hospital will walk you through everything from SSN, birth certificate, and everything else you wouldn't even have thought of.
2006-11-17 06:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by deerogre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people are answering that the hospital does it for you. This wasn't the case with my sons (both born in Michigan). The hospital took care of the birth certificate, but once that came in the mail, we had to take it to the Social Security Administration office and apply for a card and they mailed it to us several weeks later.
2006-11-17 07:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hospital doesn't always take care of it. If your baby is born in December, they will not file it (because of tax confusion). If this is the case, you take a birth certificate and one other form of proof of birth (the discharge papers from the hospital, something) and they will file it. My social security office got our baby her SSN within 3 weeks after filing and it only took about 10 minutes to file.
2006-11-17 06:30:00 · answer #4 · answered by smartygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can take up four weeks to get the card in the mail. If you have a social security office in your town you can go down there and explain to them that you want to get a passport for the baby but have not recieved the card yet. If you got the paper at the hospital when you filed for the card they should have given you a reciept. Hopefully this helps.
2016-05-21 23:03:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hospital has you fill out the appropriate paperwork before you leave the hospital and a card is sent to you about 6-8 weeks later.
2006-11-17 06:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Jojo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually you when you fill out the paper in the hospital for the birth certificate it is just automatically sent to you. But if its not ,take the birth certificate to the social security office and apply for one
2006-11-17 05:51:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hospital's in Michigan send a person to your room to do your birth record, as well as sign your child up for their social security number. I believe it then comes by mail.
2006-11-17 07:14:26 · answer #8 · answered by Marissa H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just filled out the info at the hospital and about a month later got the card in the mail.
2006-11-17 06:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by Ducky S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while you're in the hospital,the unit secretary will submit papers to get the baby registered and the SSN will automatically follow within about 2-3 months
2006-11-17 05:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by uk nurse 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋