In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
06/08/2005
at 11:20 PM, John P Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In the United States, a social security number is required for tax
>filing, government benefits, and has essentially become a national id
>number, although it was initially not intended to be used for that
>purpose.
AFAIK it is still illegal to use it for identification; that, of
course, has been only minimally enforced.
>You can not get a driver's license without a social security number.
Wrong. The DMV prefers to use your SSN as your license number, but
they will issue a license without it, at least in Virginia.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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