ss #’s have not always been issued at birth...i was born in (ahem) 1956 and ours was not issued until we were in jr high school....also the first 3 numbers on mine shows it was issued in the state of florida....
Correct, I was born in 1957 and didn’t apply for a SS# until I was 16 and applying for an after school job.
When my son was born in 1987, we had to get a SS# before we could claim him on our income tax. I went down to the SS office to apply for both my kids.