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SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman
stevel writes "Holly Ramer, who lives in Concord, NH, has never been to the Federated States of Micronesia, but debt collectors dun her mercilessly for unpaid loans taken out by a small business owner in that Pacific island nation. Why? Micronesia and other countries in the region have their own Social Security Administrations which gave out numbers to residents applying for US disaster relief loans. The catch is that the Micronesian SSNs have fewer digits than the nine-digit US version, and when credit bureaus entered these into their database, they padded them out with zeros on the front. These numbers then matched innocent US citizens with SSNs beginning with zeroes, as many in northern New England do. The credit bureaus say to call the Social Security Administration, the SSA says call the credit bureaus, the FTC says they can't help, and nobody is taking responsibility for the confusion."
bureaucratic ineptness like this suggests that it would not be run any better than the way the Health Insurance companies run the current system.
In fact, it would be worse. I can change health care providers, but if the gov runs health care changing governments would be much more difficult.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
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I'm gonna post a real reply to your comment and say you are right sir! I think it'll take years to work out who's fault this is, it's so convoluted.
go suck my nuts nerd.
Shut up spic, why don't you and your kind go drown in the Gulf of Mexico. I am surprised you can actually turn on a computer. No one cares about your opinion. Let the big boys who don't shovel shit for a living talk about what they actually know about and you can talk about tacos, burritos, and working 97 hours in the sun. Comprende hombre?
You should have given them you Mom's phone number. She got service and then didn't pay.