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Soc. Security Notes
In this era of credit cards, bank accounts, zip codes, and area codes, practically every American is playing the numbers game. Every time you open a charge* account at a store or start a savings account at a bank you get another number. Every time you move, it means a new address and telephone listing to remember. It can get pretty confusing at times. But there is one number that will never change as long as you live, no matter how often you move or change jobs. That’s your social security number.
More than 186 million Americans have a social security number, and each one is different. Each year, an additional 6 million people get numbers.
That’s a lot of numbers, but even with the population explosion, there is no danger of social security running short. The system permits the use of just under a billion different numbers of nine digits each. Several more generations will be able to get social security numbers before it will become necessary to reissue
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