Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women (cio.com)

itwbennett writes: After 25 years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has fessed up to giving two Florida women who shared a name and a birthday the same social security number. The women only recently discovered that they shared an SSN, but not before having trouble getting loans and having tax returns rejected. You might think that the SSA would catch something like this, but as it turns out, they are prohibited from trying to verify the legitimate owner of an SSN, except in rare cases, says Ken Meiser, VP of identity solutions at ID Analytics, provider of credit and fraud risk solutions. And the problem isn't as rare as you might think (except for the part about two women with the same name born on the same day in the same state). According to a 2010 study by ID Analytics, some 40 million SSNs are associated with multiple people.

Comments

Re:Not the same problem as most of the duplicates.

[Anonymous Coward]

Queue the lefties screaming "rayciss" in 3...2...1...

Re:Not the same problem as most of the duplicates.

[AK Marc]

How do the illegals dupe the government into giving out the same SSN to multiple people?

Re:Probably not a coincidence

[Anonymous Coward]

You're all illegal immigrants Ke-mo sah-bee