That being said. Obama would have had to have an SS# very early in life. His mother ran him around the World. He was in Indonesia before he was five and would have needed a passport.
My father was killed in a car accident in 1967 when I was 2 years old and I had a Social Security for survivor benefits which my mother received until I turned 18.
“He was in Indonesia before he was five and would have needed a passport.”
I don’t know if you needed a SSN for passports back then, but you certainly wouldn’t need one if you were traveling on a FOREIGN passport.
I was born in 1961 and there was no ssn issued for me then. I was born in upstate NY. I got my SSN in 1976 so I could start to work and do odd jobs. Perhaps the change in ssn issuance rules came later so that by the mid 60’s all children got them issued...perhaps as part of the “great society” welfare build up the FED’s were doing at the time.
I traveled around the world, as my Dad was in the military. I didn’t have a SS# until I was 17.
Not true, My parents got our SS#’s right away. My brother was born in ‘65 and i was born in ‘67.
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Yes, it could be done. My folks got for one for me in 1966 right after I was born. They didn’t do it for my younger sister and brother, though, who were born during the next few years. I don’t know why.