From: "Barbara Baber" <>
Subject: [HANKS] Fw: [KYWOLFE-L] Fw:Ever wonder what state someone's S.S# was issued in?
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:06:11 -0400
I thought this was interesting!
Barbara
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From: "Joan B. Williams" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: [KYWOLFE-L] Fw:Ever wonder what state someone's S.S# was issued in?
> Another forwarded, with permission. Hope these help.
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> Joan B. Williams
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> Ever wonder what state someone's S.S# was issued in?
> Here's how to tell.
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> SAMPLE LETTER TO ORDER ORIGINAL SS APPLICATION AT BOTTEM OF PAGE
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> WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN:
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> The nine-digit Social Security number is divided
> into three parts. The first three numbers generally
> indicate the state of residence at the time a person
> applies for his or her card.Originally, the lowest
> numbers were assigned to the New England states,
> and the numbers grew progressively higher in the
> South and West. However, in recent years,
> this geographical relationship has been disrupted
> somewhat by the need to allocate numbers out of
> sequence as state populations change.
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> The middle two digits of a Social Security number
> have no special significance, but merely serve
> no break the numbers into blocks of convenient
> size. The last four characters represent a straight
> numerial progression of assigned numbers.
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> SSA has issued more than 383 million Social
> Security numbers, and about 6 million new
> numbers are assigned each year. But even at this
> rate, there will be no need to reissue the same
> numbers, revise the present system, or devise
> a new numbering system for several generations.
> For this reason, SSA plans to continue using the
> nine-digit number.
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>
> 001-001 New Hampshire 387-399 Wisconsin
> 004-007 Maine 400-407 Kentucky
> 008-009 Vermont 408-415 Tennessee
> 010-034 Massachusetts 416-424 Alabama
> 035-039 Rhode Island 425-428 Mississippi
> 040-049 Connecticut 433-439 Arkansas
> 050-134 New York 433-439 Louisiana
> 135-158 New Jersey 440-448 Oklahoma
> 159-211 Pennsylvania 449-467 Texas
> 212-220 Maryland 468-477 Minnesota
> 221-222 Delaware 478-485 Iowa
> 223-231 Virginia 486-500 Missouri
> 232-236 West Virginia 501-502 North Dakota
> 237-246 North Carolina 503-504 South Dakota
> 247-251 South Carolina 505-508 Nebraska
> 252-260 Georgia 509-515 Kansas
> 261-267 Florida 516-517 Montana
> 268-302 Ohio 518-519 Idaho
> 303-317 Indiana 520 Wyoming
> 318-361 Illinois 521-524 Colorado
> 362-386 Michigan 525&585 New Mexico
> 526-527 Arizona 575-576 Hawaii
> 528-529 Utah 531-539 Washington
> 540-544 Oregon 545-573 California
> 574-Alaska
> 577-579 District of Columbia
> 580-Virgin Islands
> 581-585 Puerto Rico, Guam
> 700-729 Railroad
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> INVALID SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
> 1. Three or more leadin zeros (000-08-8537)
> 2. Ending in four zeros (557-84-0000)
> 3. Leading numbers 73 through 79 (734-81-9559/791-32-7462)
> 4. Leading number 6 or 8 (687-44-3867/806-55-6823)
> 5. Leading number of 9 is suspect, very few issued (915-83-7836)
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