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The Social Security Administration issues Social Security Cards and Numbers
to all citizens requesting the issue of a number. The formatting of numbers has been developed
so that the sequencing of the numbers allows for the verification of the legitimacy of a Social
Security number being presented to a bank or NBFI. For instance, any individual presenting a
Social Security Card starting with numbers 000 is presenting a fraudulent number as the Social
Security Administration has stated that it will never issue such a card. The Social Security
Administration also provides a monthly report indicating what numbers have been issued and what
numbers are in the process of being issued.
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Data Checked:
Individual SSN numbers are checked against the Issued Numbers list to ensure that the supplied
number falls into a range that has been or is currently being issued. MLDS also checks that the
number does not contain an area or group number with all zeros.
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