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YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Why YSK: If you are a US Resident, don't lose your Social Security card more than 10 times, or else you might need to respawn 💀

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

In accordance with §7213 of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004 and 20 CFR 422.103, the number of replacement Social Security cards per person is generally limited to three per calendar year and ten in a lifetime.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I don’t get it. Is a social secuirty thingy the same as what National ID’s are for in other countries?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not supposed to be an identifier, but since it's the only nationally-assigned designation all citizens get it's treated like one.

Which is stupid. It's incredibly insecure, vitally important, leaked to every bad actor on the planet already, and unchangeable when it gets compromised (which it has been).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, sort of, but in a stupid way. The number is treated as a unique identifier of a person, but you don't carry it around since it's so insecure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Why not just use the passport number? Or does your passport have the SS number?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hopefully all record of replacements will seem gay for some reason and get scrubbed.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The number's 10 now? It was 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, the card isn't ID, and you should have your number memorized by now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How many times until they catch the cocksuckers that keep stealing them then?

At 44, I'm pretty sure it's been stolen ten times.

Or better yet, unfuck the system that requires us to have the damned things?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where are you keeping your social security card that it keeps getting stolen? Is it in your wallet or in your house somewhere and your getting broken into a whole bunch?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They upped the number to 10? Last time I had to replace mine (about 10-20 years ago), the limit was set to 3.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Why. The hell. Are we supposed to keep sacred a piece of paper that only has 9 precious numbers we can't choose, but that will permanently identify us, that will deteriorate over time, we're not supposed to laminate or protect it, and we only have limited replacements!? So dumb...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

It's fucking absurd. It is the flimsiest piece of paper imaginable too (unless it's been changed recently).

Also, I'm pretty sure you have to pay a fee to replace it, so why the fuck do they limit it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You can laminate it. New ones don't say not to, mine is and have never even been asked about it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got rained on when I went to a new job about 10 years ago, had it in my wallet so they could copy it for new hire bs. The colors bled and the blue stained other parts of the card. I never got it replaced but seriously, it isn't even as durable as a dollar bill.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got a locked file cabinet with folders for all my important documents like social security card, birth certificate, the degrees I don't have hanging on the wall, lease contracts, stuff like that. Also a shitton of appliance manuals

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That certainly doesn't sound like the first thing to get utterly torched in a house fire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually keep them (minus appliance stuff because I just find them online and download the pdf and never found them that important) in a fireproof safe. Honestly, it's not a lot of stuff, and so the safe is really small. It didn't cost much at all but you do have to replace it like every 10ish years since fireproof doesn't last forever.