www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/…/section-422.103
We may allow for reasonable exceptions to these limits on a case-by-case basis in compelling circumstances. We also will consider name changes (i.e., verified legal changes to the first name and/or surname) and changes in alien status which result in a necessary change to a restrictive legend on the SSN card (see paragraph (e)(3) of this section) to be compelling circumstances, and will not include either of these changes when determining the yearly or lifetime limits.
vxx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I guess they’re technically not replacement cards but newly issued ones
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I think this is to counter someone selling theirs on purpose replacing it. Guess the number is just honestly an estimate of what could reasonably happen, but then it’s still 3 a year. But then again you couldn’t definitely have such bad luck to lose your wallet thrice a year.
Anyways, I’d assume that if (well before the US went totally mad) there was an actually reasonable case of someone encountering the limit who clearly wasn’t a fraudster, it’d probably be amended.
But that’s just my cursed optimism, probably doesn’t reflect reality.