Getting an SSN for a child was, and still is, voluntary. It only becomes necessary when the child enters the wonderful world of taxation. In my case, I was about 10 when my parents opened a bank savings account for me. It was then that I got my SSN, with the correct prefix for the state I lived in.
Since Obama was taken to Indonesia as a child, it’s likely that he didn’t have an SSN at that point. Any suggestion that he applied for an SSN while in Indonesia is ludicrous.
So, it’s entirely likely that he was still SSN-free when he returned to Hawaii, and needed that SSN to get his first job.
Getting an SSN for a child was, and still is, voluntary. It only becomes necessary when the child enters the wonderful world of taxation.
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I don’t believe this is entirely correct.
Today SSN’s are either issued before you can claim as dependent or possibly right at birth or shortly thereafter?
I know I didn’t have to get one until I went to work and it was issued from where applied for, not where born (this was 53)- -