SSN Policy Manual

Policy Manual

county creates a birth certificate based on these records. You can request a birth certificate anytime you wish. There have been a few rare instances when a hospital goon threatens to refuse to let you leave the hospital with your baby if you don't first apply for a social security number. They usually don't realize that they are threatening to kidnap a child and such a threat is a serious crime. For the sake of getting good evidence, ask them to put that threat in writing. You should take such a threat seriously and immediately speak to upper management. Be sure to explain that you are clearly offended by such threats and will turn it over to the appropriate authorities if necessary and you may even seek civil damages. Credit Reporting Agencies Credit reporting agencies use the social security number as a unique identifier. They obtained the social security number from you when you completed a credit application. They believe that their authority to use the social security number came to them by way of your signing the credit application. Credit reporting agencies can only use information that they obtain from one of the following sources: directly from information that you give them on a credit application How the Major Credlt Reporting Agencies Identify You Every credit reporting agency has a particular system of file retrieval that allows them to identify the file of each person in their system. It is necessary to identify each file in such r manner as to separate individuals with similar names and addresses so that Robert Jones H 11; not appear on the file as Bob Jones. However, no bureau has yet come up with a pcrfcc? system of file identification. That is why you will sometimes see items on a credit report t b r belong to someone else with a similar name. In an effort to maintain maximum efficiency, credit reporting agencies prefer to set up more than one file per person rather than risk merging several people's files into one. This II the weak link in the system. Credit reporting agencies have two basic types of file identification. One type is used b, EWERIAN, Equifax, and other major credit reporting agencies, with the exception *f TransUnion. TransUnion uses the other type. directly from a company that you ask for credit directly from a company that provides you credit public records