The Social Security Card Number SSN and Weirdness You Won't Believe!

Read this hub if you want to or just go down to the bottom of this page to the part that starts with-

Here is something Very Interesting Doctor Watson

and read that part -- it is really freaky.

Social Security USA-How the SSN Helps Locate People (even though it isn't supposed to)

Of course there is a lot more to this but this is the basic beginning to understanding how it works.

The first three digits of the social security number are useful in locating people because those numbers show the state the person (or their parents) applied for it in. It is nearly always regarded as the person's home state, the state where they were probably born, a state to which they may return.

It is also a state they very well may have friends or relatives they stay in touch with or physically stay with from time to time or receive help from. Somewhere in your investigative search, collection efforts, contacts, a county, city or town in that state might be referred to and may lead you to your missing person.

The key to determining the state in which the Social Security Card was issued is only the first 3 numbers of the SS number. When all else fails, do a surname only search in your subjects home state. You are pretty much guaranteed to then be able to talk with family members, neighbors or old friends who might have a lead for you.

This list below shows every states first 3 number code of the SSN.

004 to 007 Maine ME

008 to 009 Vermont VT

010 to 034 Massachusetts MA

035 to 039 Rhode Island RI

040 to 049 Connecticut CT

050 to 134 New York NY

135 to 158 New Jersey NJ

159 to 211 Pennsylvania PA

212 to 220 Maryland MD

221 to 222 Delaware DE

223 to 231 Virginia VA

232 to 236 West Virginia WV

237 to 246 North Carolina NC

247 to 251 South Carolina SC

252 to 260 Georgia GA

261 to 267 and 589 to 595 Florida FL

260 to 302 Ohio OH

303 to 317 Indiana IN

318 to 361 Illinois IL

362 to 386 Michigan MI

387 to 399 Wisconsin WI

400 to 407 Kentucky KY

408 to 415 Tennessee TN

416 to 424 Alabama AL

425 to 428 and 587 to 588 Mississippi MS

429 to 432 Arkansas AR

433 to 439 Louisiana LA

440 to 448 Oklahoma OK

449 to 467 and 627 to 645 Texas TX

468 to 477 Minnesota MN

478 to 485 Iowa IA

486 to 500 Missouri MO

501 to 502 North Dakota ND

503 to 504 South Dakota SD

505 to 508 Nebraska NE

509 to 515 Kansas KS

516 to 517 Montana MT

518 to 519 Idaho ID

520 Wyoming WY

521 to 524 Colorado CO

525 and 585 New Mexico NM

526 to 527 and 600 to 601 Arizona AZ

530 Nevada NV

531 to 539 Washington WA

540 to 544 Oregon OR

545 to 573 and 602 to 626 California CA

574 Alaska AK

575 to 576 Hawaii HI

577 to 579 District of Columbia DC

587 to 588 Mississippi MS

589 to 595 Florida FL

646 to 647 Utah UT

648 to 649 New Mexico NM

581 - 585 Puerto Rico & Guam & American Samoa & Philippine Islands

586 - Guam & Mariana Island & American Samoa & Philippine Islands

650-699 unassigned, for future use

700-728 Railroad workers through 1963, then discontinued

729-799 unassigned, for future use

800-999 not valid SSNs.

Some sources have claimed that numbers above 900 were used when some state programs were converted to federal control, but the current Social Security Administration documents claim that no numbers above 799 have ever been used. (Yes, well, read dr. watson) I don't believe ANYthing they *claim*.

The middle two digits of the social security number are the group number and have no geographical significance. They just break the SSN into conveniently sized blocks for use in internal operations and order of issuance.

Also, it is helpful to know - SSN's are never reassigned when people die. Benefits may be payable to dependents and survivors or the SSN holder long after the social security number holder dies. The SSN is used to administer the payment of these benefits. The current 9-digit number provides roughly 1 billion SSNs. Roughly 478 million SSNs have been issued.

The last four digits of the social security number are the serial number; representing a straight numerical series of numbers from 0001-9999 within each group.

Here is something Very Interesting Doctor Watson - In all the years I have been P.I.ing around, two times, twice -- I have actually SEEN in a data bank with my own 2 little eyes social security numbers that have a LETTER attached to the end of them. One was the letter *A* and the other one I don't recall.

I actually phoned the SSN administration office to ask them about it. They completely denied they exist. They said there has NEVER been a letter in ANY social security number on any card EVER issued. So, being curious AND the families I was helping wanted to know what it meant as they thought it was a typo-- I looked further into these two cases. One of them was definitely military - the other I could not find a military record FOR but that doesn't mean he wasn't.

DELETE...if you get my drift.

Here's the thing that bugs me to this day...It can't BE a typo because unless the rectangular spot on the data input persons program has been altered by a programmer; it will only HOLD 9 digits! So, yes, they can and do make typos - transpose numbers, etc...BUT they cannot add an extra number or an extra anything....UNLESS THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN MODIFIED AND PUT THERE FOR A REASON.

AND I HIGHLY SUSPECT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM and that THEY DO EXIST MUCH MORE THAN I'VE RUN ACROSS AND THAT THEY JUST ARE *REMOVED* FOR WHATEVER REASON before they leave where ever they were that put the letter there in the first place.

So, when someone is entered, the powers that be above have already removed the letter at the big P or where ever before they ever get to being used in databanks (where they were NEVER EVER meant to be in the first place).

What do you make of that and have you ever seen one? If you have seen one - PLEASE OH PLEASE write to me and let me know.

Another thing that happens that never should is sometimes people are issued more than one number. I have NO idea how this could happen but it does and here is one story - it happened to a very close friend of mine. She had moved abroad for several years and upon returning to the US she went to the SS Admin office as she had lost her card and wanted a new one. She had never before requested a card since she'd been issued one she at age 17 she thought.

She told me that the lady looked up from the monitor and just flatly as you please stated ;

"You have 2 numbers, pick one."

Well, sheesshh, geeezzzz. I mean - after ALL those years wouldn't you think you and THEY would want to know which number all the earnings had been going under?? Split? One or both or something else? Pick the wrong one and you get --NADA??

She could NOT get any further and could not get any answers; she HAD TO PICK ONE. Just like that - right then - on the spot. What dod you do? Demand to phone your congressman on the spot?

In conclusion (boring ending-big let down)

Invalid SSNs:

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Any SSN conforming to one of the following criteria is an invalid number: Any field all zeroes (no field of zeroes is ever assigned). First three digits above 740 The key to determining the state in which the Social Security Card was issued is the first 3 numbers of the SS number.

***A last note - Canadian Social Insurance numbers (SIN#), which are the equivalant of the SSN, can be the same as a number issued in the USA. SO if you have a number that doesn't show up in the USA, try it in a Canadian database - You just may find it there. Example: I entered a Canadian friend's SIN# into a USA database for a particular reason and came up with a SSN issued in Texas/year issued, ect... Not Good.

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