Why didn’t the Social Security Board just use an individual’s name and address as the identifier? The deficiency of such a scheme was already well known. A 1937 publication recounts, ‘A recent news account states that the Fred Smiths of New York City have had so much trouble in being identified by their creditors, the courts, and even their friends, that they have joined together in forming the ‘Fred Smiths, Incorporated,’ to serve as a clearing house for their identification problems.’
I am having a surprisingly good time reading The Story of the Social Security Number. (via wnycradiolab)

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