[Lurker]

When I divorced my first wife almost 9 years or so ago and got remarried we picked up the health insurance from her employer because it was way better than mine.

The hitch was we had to cover our four year old son, too.

No problem, right? Well the problem was that the insurance card had my 2nd wifes SSN on it and my ex had already used mine fraudulently a number of times. So quite understandably we were relunctant to hand it over to her.

I fought for months with the insurance company to get that damnable number off that stupid card. They told me I was nuts for worrying about it, that nothing could go wrong, and that I was the only person in the entire history of the world who had made an issue of it.

I told them what they were doing was illegal and that by law an SSN was only supposed to be used for tax and SS purposes. They told me to go ahead and sue.

So I took a Sharpie pen, crossed over the SSN on the card and handed that to my ex and told her to have them call us if they needed it.

Well lo and behold not a decade later they've pulled all those SSNs off all those SS cards because of 'identity theft' concerns.

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[4woodenboats]

My social security number is my ID number on my insurance card. Always has been.