Franklin D Roosevelt - Presidential Statement Signing the Social Security Act, 1935, Search Social Security Number Online

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FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

SIGNING THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT. AUGUST 14,1935

"Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

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.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.

This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needed and patriotic legislation.

If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time."

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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.