"Ask the Question," Why 150?

Beginning May 20, 1875, officials entered everyone receiving a Social Security number into a database. This database includes:

Name (full name at birth–first, middle, and last name)

Date of birth:

Place of birth:

Citizenship status:

Gender:

Race:

Father’s name:

Mother’s maiden name:

Death date:

NOTE: Nothing connects these records to Social Security benefit payment records. Social Security benefit payment records are remarkably correct, with about 99.8% accuracy.

Recording deaths was a challenge, a booking nightmare, many missing.

So, 2025–1875 = 150 years.

NOTE: Numident files have nothing to do with key files maintained by SSA.

Sloppy record keeping, not fraud.

Sources: Arizona Daily Star, Sunday, February 23, 2025

https://www.ssa.gov/foia/request.html#:~:text=You%20can%20make%20a%20request,Baltimore%2C%20MD%2021290%2D3022.