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Social Security Cards Explained


Social Security Cards Explained

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A video each quarter. That's all we ask.

Dave Land

Woohoo a new CGP Grey video! I'm so happy, thank you! :)

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I remember something about how laminating your SS card invalidated it. I'm still not sure if that is true. Not that you ever use the actual card for anything much.

James Sutherland

Literally the worst part is that the card isn't laminated and disintegrates over time.

Brian Steiner

But PPS got some basic math security crafted in it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Public_Service_Number" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Public_Service_Number</a>#Check_character

msq

You're getting good at these ;)

Hah! Ireland does this too for its PPS number - there is no national identity scheme so the tax number became everyone's ID number.

Alan McD

Um you didn't mention that SSNs are recycled. When someone dies, that number goes back into the pool. This complicates things.

Ken Blackman

"This video brought to you by SquareSpace" but not from Patreon donors?

As someone who recently moved to America, I can say the way you use SSN is the craziest shit I have ever seen.

Leo Barlach

Love being able to support this through patreon

Jacob Mellard

You didn't mention that SSNs are also not unique - that is, there are living people who have identical SSN and like any law of large numbers there are (or were) actual living people with the same name and same SSN. That may be less true now that things are computerized but back before that it was more common.

DrWex

the counter is not yet updated and shows 74. Dang, not even 75! But good to see Grey back in business again! :-D

Jochen Römling

R.I.P the legendary 100 for Brady.

Simon Greve-Poulsen

Love the "Go Fish" moment.

Marc-Andre Ouimet

Is that an Initech logo on the mug?

mattmoose21

Brady is going to be disappointed he won't reach 100.

Paul Tomblin

Love it! Great theme music!

Eric

Great work as always Grey. Love the animators work and your script writing.

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