[Flash Bazbeaux]

The article says no social security number was ever issued.

I wonder if the “journalist” who wrote this even knows that issuance of SS numbers to newborns is a relatively recent thing, starting around 1987.

[x]

Before that parents could apply for a social security number for their children. These parents didn’t. I still have a card my parents got for me when I was still in grade school.

[hellinahandcart]

It’s true, I didn’t get a social security card until I was 14.

[NautiNurse]

I wonder if the “journalist” who wrote this even knows that issuance of SS numbers to newborns is a relatively recent thing

My initial reaction too. Trying to recall my age when I got my SS card. I signed it with a childish handwriting.

[Seruzawa]

Unlikely. Modern journalists are supremely ignorant and possess room temperature IQs.

[higgmeister]

I wonder if the “journalist” who wrote this even knows that issuance of SS numbers to newborns is a relatively recent thing, starting around 1987.

That was my first thought too.   Interestingly my daughter born in 1979 had a newborn passport with an angry baby face because she was born overseas and needed it to come into the country for the first time.

[Thank You Rush]

“”I wonder if the “journalist” who wrote this even knows that issuance of SS numbers to newborns is a relatively recent thing, starting around 1987.””

Doubtful and too lazy to check it out...