I can't believe Medicare did this? (social security, anniversary, state, years)
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Yup they put my social security number right on the front of the card so everyone can copy it. I thought you were supposed to conceal your ss# to deter identity theft. Now every health facility and insurance company has your personal information. Every person in the doctors office has access to your ss#. Sometimes I think the government is run by idiots.
Anyone from a bank to an insurance company to wherever you use a credit card can easily access your SS#. In my state, you give your SS # for EVERYTHING you apply for. Is this crazy or what. Add that to a few other things the gov't is doing, and all I can think of is the famous scene in the movie North by Northwest with Cary Grant, after he was dropped off by a bus in the middle of nowhere: Cary Grant - YouTube
Anyone from a bank to an insurance company to wherever you use a credit card can easily access your SS#. In my state, you give your SS # for EVERYTHING you apply for. Is this crazy or what. Add that to a few other things the gov't is doing, and all I can think of is the famous scene in the movie North by Northwest with Cary Grant, after he was dropped off by a bus in the middle of nowhere: Cary Grant - YouTube
I don't get how a merchant (whether online or brink and mortar) with whom you use a credit card can access your Social Security number. Please explain how they do that.
I don't get how a merchant (whether online or brink and mortar) with whom you use a credit card can access your Social Security number. Please explain how they do that.
Sorry, didn't mean every or any store clerk. My daughter, who once worked in retail, told me she'd sometimes have to phone a credit card company to verify the user, and would get personal information in that call. Every time I have applied for, or have questions about, a credit card account, I am asked to provide my SS#. You never get the same representative twice. Just yesterday when I phoned to close an account, the person asked my SS# and birthdate. It's just so easy to have access, we might as well walk around with our number stamped on our foreheads.
In this day-and-age I find that preferable to being issued yet another number. As has been pointed out, our SSNs are already "out there" anyway. My head is already full enough of numbers, including really important ones like my wife's birthdays and our anniversary. I don't really need any more.
By the way, the military now uses your SSN as your service number, has done so for years and it's displayed on your ID card for the world (PX, commissary, medical facilities, etc.) to see.
In this day-and-age I find that preferable to being issued yet another number. As has been pointed out, our SSNs are already "out there" anyway. My head is already full enough of numbers, including really important ones like my wife's birthdays and our anniversary. I don't really need any more.
By the way, the military now uses your SSN as your service number, has done so for years and it's displayed on your ID card for the world (PX, commissary, medical facilities, etc.) to see.
Ain't that the truth. I think I've hit overload capacity. When asked for my driver license number I have to take out the card and look. Not even going to try to remember those 7 numbers.
Yup they put my social security number right on the front of the card so everyone can copy it. I thought you were supposed to conceal your ss# to deter identity theft. Now every health facility and insurance company has your personal information. Every person in the doctors office has access to your ss#.
Medicare is part of Social Security. You're complaining that Social Security is using your Social Security number when they're the one group that was actually supposed to use it.
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