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LOST SOCIAL SECURITY CARD
(or Requesting a Replacement Card, or Name Change)

We cannot replace lost or missing Social Security cards. You have to contact your local Social Security Administration office to obtain a replacement SSN card. Read below for further instructions:         

If you need to replace a lost Social Security card, or change the name shown on your card, or request a replacement card, you need to complete Form SS-5 which is available in PDF format here, or can be obtained from the Social Security Administration web site.

Or you can call the SSA at 1-800-772-1213 or visit your local Social Security office. This link takes you to the online SSA Office Locator. Just enter your zip code and it will give you the map location, address and telephone numbers for the office closest to you.

In addition to completing the form you need to furnish identification:

  • To get a replacement card, you usually need one identifying document. Your replacement card will have the same number as your old card. Some documents that we can accept as proof of identity are:
    1. Driver’s license
    2. Marriage or divorce record
    3. Military records
    4. Employer ID card
    5. Adoption record
    6. Insurance policy
    7. Passport
    8. Health Insurance card (not a Medicare card)
    9. School ID card
  • For a name change on your card, you need documentation that shows your old name and your new name. Your new card will show your new name but will have the same number as your old card.
  • For a new card, you will need to provide documents that show your age, citizenship or lawful alien status, and who you are; for example, a birth certificate and a school record. If you have downloaded the form, additional examples are listed.

NOTE: The SSA cannot accept photocopies of documents. You must submit original documents or copies certified by the custodian of the record. Notarized copies are not acceptable.
    
Note: If you are living outside the United States, there is a different form, the Application for a Social Security Card (SS-5-FS) - Foreign Service.
      
If you were born outside the United States, you also generally must show proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful alien status.

For more information from the SSA about your Social Security Number, its use and misuse, and what the numbers mean, goto this online SSA publication, Social Security: Your Number.

     

                     
For further information about our services contact Customer Service or call us directly at 1-866-SSN-USA9 (1-866-776-8729). Our hours of business are from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mountain Standard Time (MST), Monday - Friday. Please feel free to call our offices on Saturday, we will be open if the preceding week has been busy. For technical problems, contact Webmaster, Jason Hicks.
             
For unsubstantiated, contested, or fraudulent credit card charges, there will be an additional $25.00 MINIMUM processing charge plus collection and legal fees, if incurred. By placing an order with us you hereby agree to these terms.
            
Although a DOB (date of birth) may be returned by an SSN search, by law we cannot provide that data to you. There are restrictions and limitations to the data that we provide. Please see our User Agreement. We do not use, sell or distribute any of the information that we collect from you in the course of our investigations. For a complete disclosure please click on the link for our Privacy Practice. The information that you give us is held in a secure system and is not available to any other third-party. Your use of this site will not be revealed to any other third party without your express permission.

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SSNUSA - In Brief:  On August 14th, 1935 as President Roosevelt signed the original Social Security Act. "This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health." To keep track of the millions of people eligible for these benefits the Social Security Number was invented. Originally intended to serve the limited purpose of enrolling persons covered by the original Social Security Act, this mammoth government insurance program needed a mechanism to efficiently and accurately segregate the earnings, payments and benefits of millions of individuals. The social security numbering system was designed to do just that. Its unique nine-digit format allows for individual registration of nearly one billion persons. Since issuance of the first SSN in 1936, some 300 million other numbers have been given out. However, the SSN has come to play a far bigger role than its creators could have ever envisioned. From job applications to tax returns, to driver licenses, to educational records, the SSN has become that standard identifier on a wide variety of records. Designed simply as a lifelong unique identity number to track payments into the Social Security Program, the use of the SSN has expanded . In 1961 it was adopted as the federal employee identifier, and by the IRS as the official taxpayer ID in 1962. Government agencies are bound by the restrictions of the  Privacy Act of 1974. But businesses, especially banks and credit card grantors, and private entities, such as universities and hospitals are not bound by any such restrictions, and now your SSN can appear on licenses, mailing labels and academic reports. It has become the de facto identifying number that we all carry with us through life. The role that the SSN has come to occupy is understandable. There is no more widely held identifying number in the country. Most people acquire an SSN at an early age, certainly by the time they enter the workforce.  And unlike names and addresses, a person's SSN cannot be duplicated or changed. An SSN once issued is yours to keep, it never changes. Utility companies, credit card grantors, banks and a host of other private entities all require a Social Security Number before they will open new accounts.  This means that searching by SSN is by far and away the most powerful search in existence.  The three major credit bureaus, Trans-Union, Experian (formerly TRW) and Equifax record the SSN, along with an individual's identifying information in the top portion or "header" of credit reports.  Unlike the full credit report itself, this information is made freely available and the subject is never notified that this information has been accessed. This report will return all current and reported addresses for the individual and possible listed phone numbers for the last 7-10 years. Also if the subject tries to use an SSN or an alias (including maiden and married names) that is different from their own, then it is usually flagged and reported. The validity and date of issuance of the SSN is reported, and if the subject is trying to use an SSN that was issued in a death claim file, then this will show up too.