The Social Security Administration does not reuse Social Security numbers. It has issued over 450 million since the start of the program, and at a use rate of about 5.5 million per year. It says it has enough to last several generations without reuse or changing the number of digits.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 1:02 PM, Joe Monk <[email protected]> wrote: > 9 digits = 999,999,999. There afe only 350,000,000 in the USA. > > Joe > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:08 AM Paul Gilmartin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:45:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > > > My guess is that they needed to update the online application to support > > > the new legislation, > > > ... > > > Meanwhile, how close is the 9-digit SSN space to saturation? > > > > -- gil > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
