<p>Right, missypie. I was born in NY but I don’t live there anymore.</p>
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<p>Downstate 40 years ago.</p>
<p>^^^ I guess they ran out of #s that began with a “0” in the 15 yr interval between our births!</p>
<p>It does not raise suspicions to have a SSN not of the area as we are such a mobile society. Also most of us don’t bother to work out the prefixes.</p>
<p>SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER STATE CODES </p>
<p>001-003 New Hampshire (NH)
004-007 Maine (ME)
008-009 Vermont (VT)
010-034 Massachusetts (MA)
035-039 Rhode Island (RI)
040-049 Connecticut (CT)
050-134 New York (NY) **
135-148 New Jersey (NJ)
159-211 Pennsylvania ¶
212-220 Maryland (MD)
223-231 Virginia (VA)
232 West Virginia (WV) North Carolina (NC)
233-236 West Virginia (WV)
237-246 North Carolina (NC)
247-251 South Carolina (SC)
252-260 Georgia (GA)
261-267 Florida (FL)
268-302 Ohio (OH)
303-317 Indiana (IN)
318-361 Illinois (IL)
362-386 Michigan (MI)
387-399 Wisconsin (WI)
400-407 Kentucky (KY)
408-415 Tennessee (TN)
416-424 Alabama (AL)
425-428 Mississippi (MS)
429-432 Arkansas (AR)
433-439 Louisiana (LA)
440-448 Oklahoma (OK)
449-467 Texas (TX)
468-477 Minnesota (MN)
478-485 Iowa (IA)
486-500 Missouri (MO)
501-502 North Dakota (ND)
503-504 South Dakota (SD)
505-508 Nebraska (NB)
509-515 Kansas (KS)
516-517 Montana (MT)
518-519 Idaho (ID)
520 Wyoming (WY)
521-524 Colorado (CO)
525 New Mexico (NM)
526-527 Arizona (AZ)
528-529 Utah (UT)
530 Nevada (NV)
531-539 Washington (WA)
540-544 Oregon (OR)
545-573 California (CA)
574 Alaska (AK)
575-576 Hawaii (HI)
577-579 District of Columbia (DC)
580 Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico (PR)
581-584 Puerto Rico (PR)
585 New Mexico (NM)
586 Guam, American Somoa, Philippine Islands
587 Mississippi (MS)
589-595 Florida (FL)
596-599 Puerto Rico (PR)
600-601 Arizona (AZ)
602-626 California (CA)
627-645 Texas (TX)
646-647 Utah (UT)
648-649 New Mexico (NM)
654-658 South Carolina (SC)
667-675 Georgia (GA)
680 Nevada (NV)
700-728 RR Retirement Board<br>
(All States - until July, 1963)
764-765 Arizona (AZ)</p>
<p>WOW!! I was born in NYC (before they invented electricity 
) and mine begins with “05…” and my D was born in NYC (before they invented cell phones ) and hers begins with a “12…” Ya learn something every day!!</p>
<p>My mother applied for social security numbers for my siblings and me at the same time, around the time the oldest was applying for her first job at perhaps age 14. As a result, our four numbers are all the same except for the final digit. However, we were not all born in the same state–some Florida and some California–and we were living in a third state when she applied for the numbers. With my kids they were assigned social security numbers at birth, but that didn’t use to be the case.</p>
<p>jym626 - H was born in CT and his starts with a zero.</p>
<p>Now guess what the rest of it is ;)</p>
<p>It’s not where you were born, but where you physically live when you apply for your number that is the determining factor.</p>
<p>This explains what the #'s mean:
[HowStuffWorks</a> “The Social Security Number”](<a href=“http://people.howstuffworks.com/social-security-number2.htm]HowStuffWorks”>What Do the Numbers Mean? - The Social Security Number | HowStuffWorks)</p>
<p>Even if the person’s gender and eye color were encoded in the SSN, it wouldn’t help. I’ve read stories of people discovering that 30-40 people were using their number at once. Obviously many employers just want a number-any number-to be able to give someone a job.</p>
<p>Wow, binx. I thought it was totally random, but there’s some logic in there after all. Do the numbers get recycled?</p>
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<p>In our state, all non-resident aliens (legal and illegal) are considered residents for tuition purposes if they graduated from an in-state HS and have lived in WA for at least 3 years. As long as they do not apply for loans and/or fin. aid, there is no need to provide SSN. Nowadays students get assigned a Student ID Number. yD (US citizen) did not provide her SSN - did not seem to be a problem. She put her colege-generated ID number on all of her college correspondence, and everything made into her file (may be the fact that her name is not Jane Smith played a role ;))</p>
<p>SO…I had background checks done on the whole family, just to see if anyone else’s SSN had been stolen. My daughters and I are clear, but my husband’s number is being used by a family of three with middle Eastern names in Orland Park, Illinois!!!</p>
<p>OHH Dear Heavens!</p>
<p>You poor things! Well good luck with that! What a nightmare!</p>
<p>On the family in Orland Park, they actually have two different SSNs that they all seem to use interchangably. </p>
<p>I would really encourage all of you to have a background check run on yourselves…I think it costs $25-$50. This is not information that shows up on a credit report or social security statement of earnings.</p>
<p>There may be a predating issue though - without further exploration, you may not be able to yet confirm if perhaps you aren’t using “their” SS number, not the other way around…</p>
<p>This is actually not terribly uncommon and I think the latest stats I read was something like 17% duplication…</p>
<p>But how would I ever find out if it was a duplicated number? The SS Adminstration won’t say a word due to privacy laws. </p>
<p>Plus, even given the perceived incompetence of some government employees, it is highly unlikley that they would give a family of three, with birth dates in 1944, 1948 and 1973, the identical social security number!</p>
<p>It’s more likely an error in the PI’s report. Think about it, a group of people intent on committing fraud, they’re going to all use one number…that’s not even logical…it’s way too easy to either steal or invent lots more numbers…this sounds more like bungling, misinformation or miscommunication than anything else…</p>
<p>SS numbers aren’t really necessary to accomplish identity theft, and, duplicate use of SS numbers doesn’t necessarily always point to fraud.</p>
<p>I don’t know that I agree. The articles I’m reading say that with SSN only theft (using one’s own name), entire families of illegal immigrants often use the same number. Some people have discovered 30-40 people using their number.</p>
<p>Yes, and typically, in those cases, the illegal immigrants are using the numbers to obtain and keep jobs, rather than commit financial fraud. That’s why we need to work a lot harder on resolving immigration issues. This isn’t an ID theft or fraud matter, it’s unfortunately a societal matter.</p>