Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.

• maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not everyone has a passport and you use SSN to get one. Passports are relatively rare for a lot of people in the US.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interesting. In europe it’s made simpler because we have the same number on our ID and our Passport. And in many european countries that is what’s used for identification from the government.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In the US nobody would want an official single identifier across multiple services and agencies like that, even though our SSN is essentially used that way. People don’t want to be tracked and linked by a single identifier, arguably because it would be abused by commercial and/or government interests, and then there’s the conspiracy nuts that would come up with who knows what reasons, and religious nuts that view a unique identifier as a “mark of the beast” or whatever.

      People a fucking weird over here.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not driving I’m simply traveling!

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• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not everyone has a passport.

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