Social Security Numbers: Government Benefits From SSN Use but Could Provide Better Safeguards

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Year: 2002
Pages: 61
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756731739

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Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Kay Brown, & Jacquelyn Stewart. The SSN was created in 1936 to track workers’ earnings & eligibility for Social Security (SS) benefits. Since that time, the SSN has been used for many non-SS purposes, & private sector use of the SSN has grown. This has raised concern over how this personal info. is being used & protected, esp. with the growth in electronic record keep. & the explosion of info. over the Internet, combined with a rise in identity theft. This report studied: the extent & nature of Fed., state, & county gov’t. agencies’ use of SSNs; the actions gov’t. agencies take to safeguard SSNs from improper use; the extent & nature of Fed., state, & county governments’ use of SSNs when they are in public records (PR); & the options available to safeguard SSNs when they are in PR.

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