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Aug
10

Invalid or Impossible Social Security Numbers

Social Security Numbers having the following characteristics are invalid or impossible: AREA, GROUP, or SERIAL are composed of all zeroes (e.g, 000-45-6789, 123-00-6789, 123-45-0000) AREA number 666 (never have and never will be issued) AREA numbers 700 to 728 (Railroad workers through July 1, 1963, then discontinued) AREA numbers 900-999 (not valid SSNs, but were used […]

Sep
30

Providing your Social Security Number on Forms

Every time I complete a form at a bank or at a doctors office, they want my SSN. Since I’m in that industry I know all too well how SSN information gets abused. As we slid into a recession a few years ago, unemployment mounted and peoples bank accounts started dwindling. Foreclosures on the rise, […]

Sep
01

Help, I Lost my Social Security Card

While we get a lot of people that contact us for our help getting their SSN card replaced, it is something you can do yourself. Let’s say you moved out of the country for a few years and you had a social security number back then. What happens to that number? The good news is […]

Mar
14

How do I find out if someone is deceased?

A Social Security Death Records search also known as Social Security Death Index “SSDI” is a database of death records available online from many resources. It is included in most reverse social security number lookup searches. This list is a brief history of the SSDI: August 14, 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the […]