“You mean your Taxpayer Identification Number?”
NO! your Social Security Card says the number on it isn’t to be used for identification. The problem is that that boat sailed decades ago. It’s so bad now that Medicare had to issue new cards with a new number that ISN’T your SS number. But virtually every account I have utilizes my SS number as at least a component of my means of identification, and that should never have been allowed to happen.
Well aware of that. Which is why a wrote the post.
My Dad’s military ID number (serial number) when he was in the Army (WWII) was not his SSN.
For those in the service today it is.
So, one could say that we are all property of the US Government just like those in the service.
Like you said “that should never have been allowed to happen.”