<p>Hmmmm, DH and I both have even 5th numbers, the kids all have odd, does that mean DH and I are minorities and our kids are not :D.</p>
<p>From the article, it appears those born pre-1965 (age 47 or older) will likely have even 5th numbers while the younger people are less likely to have this unique identifier…</p>
<p>Also remember that most of us old timers didn’t get a SS number until we started working. They weren’t required for children way back when. So, even though I was born in 1964, I didn’t get a SS number until 1980. Nowdays, you have to get the number when they are infants.</p>
<p>Interesting. I was born in 1948, probably got my number in ~1958, but my middle two digits are 38.</p>
<p>The only reason they need your number is if you start filling out the application for a college. It is a legitimate field on the college application and one does not need to fill it until you are ready to hit submit. No college EVER needs your number for their database.</p>
<p>Born before 1965, my 5th digit is an odd number. I kind of like the fact that it is unusual. According to jandjdad, I’m a 1 percenter! Yay!</p>
<p>The financial aid consultants I use don’t need SS#. Just send them your bank account number and PIN. They take care of the rest!</p>
<p>PS, I’ve forgotten the contact email for these guys. All I recall is the it’s a URL with an .ng suffix.</p>
<p>Both my kids are US citizens, born in HI. Both have odd digits for their 5th digit. H & I area also US citizens, born in HI & have even digits for our 5th digit.</p>
<p>NONE of our kids Us ever asked ON-LINE for their SS# & I would NEVER provide it on-line. I would call the Us & talk to someone there about this issue and ask why they need it & whether the email is legit. I would also ask about alternative means of providing it, such as speaking to someone YOU CALL at their U on the phone or sending a fax to their U.</p>
<p>PFISHING is a very, very popular way to get info & misuse it. Caution is better than regret.</p>
<p>Born before 1965, my 5th digit is an odd number. I kind of like the fact that it is unusual. According to jandjdad, I’m a 1 percenter! Yay!</p>
<p>I was born in 1962.My 5th digit is an odd number too.</p>
<p>I was born in 1961, DH in 1964 and DD in 1988 and we all have odd numbers as the 5th digit of our ssn.</p>
<p>my 5th digit is odd also</p>
<p>maybe we are all related</p>
<p>It is really odd that so many CCers have odd 5th numbers!</p>
<p>The rules of SSN assignment changed, apparently, in 2011:</p>
<p>[Social</a> Security Number Randomization](<a href=“http://socialsecurity.gov/employer/randomization.html]Social”>Social Security Number Randomization)</p>
<p>So glad that I’m not alone as an “odd man out.” All of my family (parents, spouse and kids) all have even 5th digits. I was beginning to think I had a bogus SS#. Thanks for all the company out there!</p>
<p>US citizen, born in 1995 in Hawaii. My fifth digit is also odd. My entire immediate family (all born in California in 1967, 1968, and 1999) all have even fifth digits. Strange.</p>
<p><a href=“http://cms.bsu.edu/~/media/DepartmentalContent/Registrar/PDFs/Social%20Security%20Number%20Policy.ashx[/url]”>http://cms.bsu.edu/~/media/DepartmentalContent/Registrar/PDFs/Social%20Security%20Number%20Policy.ashx</a></p>
<p>The above is Ball State’s SSN policy – looks like it is a potential scam (especially since the student has not applied there)!! </p>
<p>Please contact the university to make them aware this email arrived to your son.</p>
<p>I have an odd 5th digit (born 1960), as do S1 and S2. Never knew this was an oddity!</p>
<p>Thanks mommafrog for locating Ball State’s policy on SSN’s. Ball State students are not even REQUIRED to provide their Soc Sec numbers to their university if they do not want to! I thought this was a scam.</p>
<p>I’m even, DW is odd both assigned as non-US citizens, 2 kids are odd and one is even, from 1990 onward.</p>
<p>I hope before the “Y2K” of SSNs takes place in 60-70 years they’ll create a system that has some redundancy and check digits to error out typos and flipped sequences. But then again maybe SSN will be a moot point by then …</p>
<p>re comment about checking grades- our school used SSN plus digits for student IDs. The only reason I ever learned my SSN. The school no longer does that and my era’s files are so old they have to be retrieved from another building so I don’t worry about ID theft from the school. Yup- the list of test grades/final grades in alphabetical order with that OOS # stood out easily for our friend (who always got As)- we never worried about X never telling us his grades. Those were the days of some computerization and a comp sci building, but no calculators, much less computers, even for STEM majors (and that term I finally learned this year after decades of being in STEM fields).</p>