I don't think that is the case anymore. I do know that the feds changed the law so that the SSN can not appear on a license. However, I know that SC and NJ require a SSN to get a drivers license.
John P Baker Software Engineer -----Original Message----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 9, 2005 7:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Banks 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html