📋 The History of Social Security Numbers (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

Number That Changed America’s Identity.

Over 90 years, the Social Security number has evolved from a code to track earnings into the passkey to our financial lives.

By Jon Marcus, AARP. Published June 13, 2025.

Fingerprints. Dog tags.

That’s how 1930s critics of the newly established Social Security system claimed the federal retirement benefit program would track American worker.

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https://www.aarp.org/social-security/ssn-history/