How old were you when you got your social security number?

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I was 11. My mom was 29.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

no idea, i've always just thought everyone got one 4-6 weeks after birth?

EDIT

FROM WIKIPEDIA

Before 1986, people often did not have a Social Security number until the age of about 14, since they were used for tax purposes and those under that age seldom had remunerative employment. In 1986, American taxation law was altered so that individuals over 5 years old without Social Security numbers could not be claimed as dependents on tax returns. Since then, parents have often applied for Social Security numbers for their children as soon as they were born

i was born 4-20-86, seems the SSN at birth is a new thing the began with my generation.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
no idea, i've always just thought everyone got one 4-6 weeks after birth?

Oh my...

 

[her209]

I got mine at 1 year old (came to the US in 1980).

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
no idea, i've always just thought everyone got one 4-6 weeks after birth?

Oh my...

Sorry for stupidity at government, but I thought this, too. Can't understand your response... But if you mean recieved it like knowing it, I would say when I was 15, when I opened up a bank account and took my first AP test (which I got a 5 on, but it was Psych, easy sh1t).

 

[NFS4]

0?

 

[BigJ]

Beats the hell outta me.

I was born here and my parents did all the paperwork for it. Or whatever is involved in getting one for a newborn.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
no idea, i've always just thought everyone got one 4-6 weeks after birth?

Oh my...

Sorry for stupidity at government, but I thought this, too. Can't understand your response... But if you mean recieved it like knowing it, I would say when I was 15, when I opened up a bank account and took my first AP test (which I got a 5 on, but it was Psych, easy sh1t).

Immigrants.

 

[skyking]

I started working on the family farm at 13, so I had a card then.
A new stereo shop was giving away stuff based on partial matches to your soc number.
I wrote down everyone in the family and friends, and went looking. I must have walked past that marantz ampifier 10 times before I realized, that WAS MY LAST 4!!!!!!!

They wanted a second piece of ID, so my mom brought down my library card

I was 14, and had the start of my first stereo

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Beats the hell outta me.

I was born here and my parents did all the paperwork for it. Or whatever is involved in getting one for a newborn.

When your parents filled out their taxes every year, if they claimed dependents, e.g. you, they have to put down a SSN for each dependent they claim.

 

[Amused]

My father took me down to get one the year dependents on tax returns required a SS number.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i have no idea... i believe when i was 0 years old back in '81 .

Parents probably did everything for me when i was born.

 

[Ryan]

A few weeks - needed the numebr being a military dependant.

 

[Zugzwang152]

sometime between when I was born and when I got my first passport at around age 14-15... I would wager as soon as I was born, though I've never asked.

 

[FoBoT]

i started working at 14 so that is when i got mine

my kids of course got theirs shortly after birth, due to what OrganizedChaos posted

 

[Kelemvor]

I'd assume about a week old. That's when our daughter got hers. Just however long it takes them to proces the paperwork we filled out when she was born.

 

[kingtas]

Around 15 or so looking for a job.

 

[sswingle]

When I was born or at most a couple weeks later?

 

[j00fek]

when i was born, idk

 

[MichaelD]

I was expecting a finely crafted, detailed poll. I was disappointed.

I was 14. Got it b/c I got my first on-the-books job. I also got Working Papers too. This was in NYC, for whoever cares. The year was....a long time ago. Let's just say before 1986, mm'kay?

 

[n7]

Got a SIN card @ 17 cause i needed one for werk.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: n7
Got a SIN card @ 17 cause i needed one for werk.

"SIN card?" Something-Industrial-Noob? Wha?

 

[Linflas]

14 for my first job.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: n7
Got a SIN card @ 17 cause i needed one for werk.

"SIN card?" Something-Industrial-Noob? Wha?

Social Insurance Number

Canadian here. We don't have SSN's here.

 

[moshquerade]

i dunno. i think at birth.