Protecting Your Identity is Important to Us
Reading Time: 1 MinuteLast Updated: April 7, 2023
Social Security is committed to protecting your identity and information. We often say that our online services are convenient, cost-effective, and secure to use.
We know that in certain instances, like for victims of domestic violence, completely blocking access to your information may be necessary. If you are a victim of domestic violence or identity theft, Social Security may be able to block access to the electronic record we keep on you.
You can block any automated telephone and electronic access to your Social Security record. No one, including you, will be able to see or change your personal information on the internet or through our automated telephone service. If you block access to your record and then change your mind in the future, you can contact Social Security and ask us to unblock it.
It is an unfortunate reality for many Americans that guarding against the release of your personal information sometimes becomes a necessity. If this is the case for you, or someone you know, Social Security can help.
In most cases your Social Security number is with you for your lifetime, but when evidence shows you are being harassed, abused, or your life is endangered, we can assign you a new one.
For more information, please read our publication, New Numbers for Domestic Violence Victims. You can also visit our blog article, Protecting Your Social Security Number from Identity Theft, for ways to help us safeguard your information.
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Margareta
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Linda M.
We are often asked for our SSN by companies that don’t need it for financial purposes. They are just using it almost like an account number. I thought this was outlawed, but perhaps not?
R.F.
Anyone can refuse to disclose his or her Social Security number, but the requester can refuse its services if you do not give it. Businesses, banks, schools, private agencies, etc., are free to request someone’s number and use it for any purpose that does not violate a federal or state law. Sometimes they will issue a different number if you ask.
Tony S.
Moderation? SS matters is pretending to be seized by the press but it is probably the illiterate lawyers from the disability blog posting. I suppose the topic of identity theft can’t be processed without recusing illiterate SSA lawyers for a criminal conflict of interest with the author. For instance when I was nearly dead from the ALJs heart attack and psychiatric kidnapping in 2008 three Ohio ALJs were appointed with my written petition. A more equal example of their crime of this day would be to describe how after talking to an SSA lawyer they removed the go to college sign form the local office.
The legal solution that has perhaps erroneously been left out of the Social Security Amendments of January 1, 2016 is: To replace welfare Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) with licensed social workers and non-social worker representatives under Sec. 206 of the Social Security Act 42USC§406.
The naked aggression of SSA lawyers is evident. I however want to be a good boss. So as not to anger the lawyers by depriving them of their employed as defined as relief benefits under the current age and disability discriminating hacking of 18USC246 and give the legal profession a fair trial I have been contemplating how to deal with the lawyer ALJs without unfairly laying them off.
SSA ALJs would be literate licensed social workers. SSA lawyers would be available to represent SSA and the poor in state and federal courts, provided that they can write a Bachelor degree calibre brief for every confidential case and are able to sometimes write publishable statements to describe statistical or anonymous legal process. I believe these two articles should suffice for the President and/or Attorney General to overrule the injunction of an SSA lawyer hacking Social Security matters ad the Social Security Amendments of January 1, 2016 in violation Unauthorized Access to Stored Information (hacking) under 18USC§2701.
Tony S.
OR Insurance!!!
You have deleted OR Insurance from this blog. There are FDR look-a-like disabled workers, in wheel chairs for many years, after undergoing surgery, with at least one count of unlawful Unauthorized Access to Stored Information (hacking) under 18USC§2701 to add to their invincible case for deprivation of relief benefits 18USC246 against SSA. SSA must do the obvious and pay “FDR impersonators” although they went to the hospital, got a reasonable surgery bill, and were stalked by a ridiculously discriminatory hospital bill, whereas The term ”disability” is defined to mean the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months as set forth by Sec. 223 42USC(7)II§423. International Classifications of Disability, Functioning are a waste of time if they are to be disrespected.
The hospital bill is the identity theft and bribery of government funds the ACA is looking for. The President is obviously under the influence of theft and bribery of government funds in regards to his misdiagnosed “war of attrition” regarding terrorist hospital bill financing, unlawful health insurance subsidies. SSA benefits suffer from attrition, more than 1,000 beneficiaries die annually, but we are pretty sure the violence and some theft come from US v. Burwell and such talk is incitement of extreme unprofessionalism and militants. Did the knife convince you to also cut of your disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC)? If your DIC isn’t there, I’m not here. This record is a waste of time. Please put the original OR Insurance back in this blog, if possible.
The President has just gone out into the community, on an armed meth and crack addiction and narced up an Indian-American tax extortion scam to mock the non-violent marijuana offenders and innocent people due compensation under Art. 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and title24uscode.org/pardons.doc . SSA needs to redress this hacking of SS matters in the same way they wrote several articles after the Labor Secretary boomed and hacked, to get away. Timber. Hacking is a crime. The record should not be tampered with because you’re accosted by a fifth amendment drinking criminal prosecutor off the public record in violation of the 6th amendment, SS matters has my email address and knows I’m papa Tony when it comes to protecting the true national accounts of SSA and the WHOMB. I am working to make sense of medicine.
Colvin and Inspector General’s fascination with overpayments is so unprofessional that the uninterpreted statistics are thought to include the military and maybe all IRS overpayments. SSA divinely prosecutes the deprivation of relief benefits 18USC246. That Colvin is a Congressional sinner in regards to overpayments does not elect her Commissioner. A hacked up identity theft blog posting is not stable platform. Elect me or devise a longer per curium blog posting of your own liberation.
If you are going to stalk about identity theft you have to redress the theft of the captive audience to the satisfaction of King et al v. Burwell (2015). There was a hereby thwarted attempt to hack Sec. 5 and 6 of the Social Security Amendments of January 1, 2016 http://www.title24uscocde.org/ss1.htm
Sec. 5 ACA Streamlining
To protect Streamlining of procedures for enrollment through an Exchange and state medicaid, CHIP and health subsidy programs 42USC§18083 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and repeal the rest of Subchapter 4 Affordable Coverage Choices for All Americans Parts A & B 42USC§18071-18084 in order to abolish the refundable premium and cost-sharing reductions for the relief of the Treasury budget by profitable health insurance corporations from January 1, 2016.
Sec. 6 2.5% health annuity reimbursements
To legislate a 2.5% health annuity for the ACA and other private health insurance corporations to credit customers with the difference between the new 2.5% health annuity rule of January 1, 2016 and the 20% ACA premium increase and cruelest and most unusual 50% Medicare part B inflation in premium price, ever, it seems best to amend the Amount of Premiums Section 1839 of Title XVII of the Social Security Act 42USC§1395r(a)(1) The monthly actuarial rate for enrollees age 65 and over shall be equal with all people who would otherwise be eligible for Medicare Part B because they are Old Age Survivor Disability Insurance (OASDI) beneficiaries. The premium is designed to afford one-third of the total of the benefits and administrative costs estimated to be payable per capita from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for services performed and related administrative costs incurred in such calendar year with respect to such enrollees and any credit due. (a) The inflation adjustment of the monthly premium of each individual enrolled is calculated at 2.5% annual inflation from the premium price of $104.90 in 2015 rounded to the nearest 5 cents, $107.50 provided social security beneficiaries receive a 3% COLA, the 6% COLA 2017 will cause premiums, that have had to be held harmless by the Treasury, to rise to $110.20 in January 2017 and increase 2.5% every year thereafter, provided there is a 3% COLA there is a 2.5% health annuity, this is not a variable proportion but fixed individual portions of inflation, as used in recipe and nutrition books (b) The SMI deductible was $147 in 2015 and will be $151 in 2016 and $154 in 2017, etc. The Drug benefit deductible was $320 in 2015, would be $330 in 2016, $340 in 2017, etc. In the Drug program the initial benefit limit and catastrophic threshold, rounded to the nearest dollar, of $2,960 and $4,700 in 2015 respectively, would be $3,034 and $4,818 in 2016, etc. (c) the 2.5% health annuity applies equally to all private health insurance programs, and health spending that must be reduced from the wildly high estimate of 17.5% to less than 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025.
Social Security Amendments of January 1, 2016 http://www.title24uscode.org/ss1.htm
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David S.
We are receiving voice mails from this number, 805-628-2725 stating that my social security case is being closed. When I called back it seemed like a scam because they only could identify my name thru my home number. Also connection was bad and person had a foreign accent. The phone number was 805-628-2725.
Angie g.
My husban has been getting a lot of threatening calls about that he owes money and if he doesn’t pay there gonna go after he’s taxes… I looked up this number and comes up as fraudulent number… He’s concerned because they have his social # if he puts a blockage on his ssn will these help or not??
R.F.
Hi Angie. It is important that you take steps to protect your Social Security number from theft. If someone obtains your Social Security number, they can use it to get other personal information about you, including your bank or credit information. If someone misused your Social Security number to create credit or other problems for you, immediately go to http://www.identitytheft.gov and report the identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission. You may also want to contact the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and file an online complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov.
bell
you did not realy answer her question, she asked if blocking his social security number would be usefull, i would say yes in his case, it will prevent samers to get a hold of his number from opening accounts etc..
Tony S.
OR Insurance
Operating room (OR) bills are too high for working age surgery patients to not be insured for disability. Crippled for life is FDRs classic disability. It is not right that surgery patients, impoverished, unable to work, uncured or harmed by surgery are denied DI in the first year and SSI thereafter. I am writing to sue for disabiity in behalf of the many people who have reported being denied disability insurance after many years of severe post-surgery physical inability to work, in various blog postings at Social Security Matters.
It would seem that the surgery and hospital bills are so large and unreasonable that they are stealing the disability benefits from their patients. The surgery bill seems reasonable on the surgeon’s face, but they are stalked by at least one ridiculous hospital bill that is not confidential. Denial of disability benefits for permanently crippled surgery patients is a legal injury.
The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) is a generic assessment instrument developed by WHO to provide a standardized method for measuring health and disability across cultures. WHODAS 2.0 captures the level of functioning in six domains of life:
• Domain 1: Cognition – understanding and communicating
• Domain 2: Mobility – moving and getting around
• Domain 3: Self-care – attending to one’s hygiene, dressing, eating and staying alone
• Domain 4: Getting along – interacting with other people
• Domain 5: Life activities – domestic responsibilities, leisure, work and school
• Domain 6: Participation – joining in community activities, participating in society.
The interview and scoring are however too complicated and impersonal to sympathize with the disabled worker and it seems more right to insure all surgery patients who have not been able to get back to work, and especially if they are not expected to be able to work for the next 12 months.
The term ”disability” is defined to mean the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months as set forth by Sec. 223 of the Social Security Act 42USC(7)II§423.
Herbert H.
Talking about protecting your Social Security number is like letting the chickens out after the fox got in! The number one problem is every business, bank, doctor and anyone else that you have bought somethingfrom has your SS#. When SS was brought into law, it stated the SS# was not to be used for identification, I guess somewhere the line our all knowing congress or potus changed the rule! Now everyone has access to our SS#!