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It has became popular among people living in the continental USA to open an SS account for their children soon after birth. It is not as common among US citizens living in the US territories.
I have had many co-workers [while serving in the US Navy] who did not have an SS account. I have also worked with men who had revoked their SS accounts.
Speaking of putting a block on your SS account have you folks blocked your credit? It's another way of identity theft protection. I have no plans on getting another credit card or mortgage so I contacted Equifax and froze my credit. This prevents anyone from stealing your identity and opening credit against your name. If you do find the need to unfreeze it you simply contact them again.
A credit freeze effectively blocks opening an SS account. Social security uses Experian as part of their verification process; an online SS account cannot be opened with your Experian credit frozen. Without being able to access Experian while trying to open an online account, a message pops up with a number to call SS. They also are not able to open an account on the phone with the Experian account frozen either. It takes doing a temporary unfreeze of your account to set up an SS account. I've never been to an SS office in person, so I don't know if they can get around credit freezes.
I learned all this when I had frozen my credit after I was involved in the Anthem data breach. Unfreezing credit accounts isn't as simple as contacting them. I have a password that if I forget is not easy to recover and it's a $10 fee for each of the credit agencies to unfreeze accounts each and every time. I've only needed it for SS and I called to see which one they used. The unfreeze can be lifted permanently or for a period of time you specify.
I still keep my credit frozen, it's a rare inconvenience but worth it to me.
I just checked mine. They STILL don't have my earnings for last year!
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