Exactly! Back in those days you had to have reached the age where you could legally work - usually around 16, before you could get a Social Security number. This is one way employers could prove they were abiding by the Child Labor laws.
Not accurate from my recollection. Before I was 16, I applied for a job and lied about my age. The guy told me I needed a SS # before I could start and told me where the SS office was --- about a block away. I walked up there and filled out a form and had a card in about 5 minutes walked back and started working. I didn't show any type of ID at the SS office to get a card issued -- hell I didn't even have any ID then.
I don't think SS cared one way or another how old someone was back then, it was just that few of us ever needed a card before we started working.
That’s not exactly correct. I received an SSN when I opened a passbook savings account at our local bank. I was probably around 11, so mid-1960’s.
What days? What year?
” Back in those days you had to have reached the age where you could legally work - usually around 16, before you could get a Social Security number.”
So true. I got mine at 15 when I got a job working behind a lunch counter in a drugstore. Was getting $1.25 an hour big bucks back in the days of 18 cents a gallon gas and 10 cent loafs of bread.
I was born in late fifties and have had one all my life.
It may have something to do with being Air Force brat and going overseas? but I have always had one