“This may apply to individuals who have been assigned their SSN at or near the time of their birth, but not otherwise. My parents did not get us SSN’s until we were several years old, and living in a different state from the one(s) we were born in. A few years, I looked into the provenance of my SSN, and found that it corresponded to the state where we got our SSN, not my birth state.”
Exactly! Most people simply do not get them until they need them, which can be long after they were born.
But the article infers that a name can be matched (the threat of identity theft) to the SSN just by knowing a birthdate and a state. Again, rubbish!
That was then, this is now ... in the maternity ward, mom gets the birth certificate AND the ssan application. The new tax code requires that any dependent has a SocSec number.