Plus the company or bank will often change the supposedly erroneous SSN to the correct one, or not worry about it.
Had that happen in my Grandfather's case. After he passed away, we discovered that his SSN was not correct in at least one place, one of them was a bank. This was after my mother had held his power of attorney for years.
Instead of officially correcting it, or contacting either him or her, and this had been going on for many, many years, the business simply punched in the correct number and went on. Thankfully the information came up correctly on his taxes and other documents. I wonder how many identity theft problems could be avoided if flags rose when numbers did not agree.
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Originally Posted by SoulasisMusic  I don't think the government would issue a new soc security number. That would make more work for them. |