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Monday, January 1, 2001
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Social Security Numbers
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Q: Do the digits in a Social Security number mean anything, or are they just randomly assigned?
A: Both. To ordinary people, the nine numbers of a person's Social Security card don't mean anything.
But the first three digits tell government officials where the cardholder lived when the card was requested.
The two middle numbers are a code officials can use to spot phony numbers (valid numbers follow a
pattern only they know). The last four numbers are randomly assigned so that no two people
have the same number.
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LCLCPL
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