******On my now very old SS card, it states the SS# is NOT to be used for identification purposes yet we have allowed our useless government to make ex post facto laws and now everyone except the clerk at the nail salon wants your SS#.****
Dh has always refused to give it out. Same with me. Can’t remember if it was FL or TX years ago, who used your social for your drivers license number. What a sscam.
When I was in college mumblety-mumble years ago the California State Univ used it as our Student ID number. There was a lawsuit - CSU lost. They had to issue NEW ids to everyone... that didn’t last long. Congress has passed numerous exceptions to the “can’t use it as an ID” requirement over the years so now it is a pointless observation. The SSN is essentially our Universal ID card - with associated obvious problems.