RE: Enforced Costraints (sic) ??

Ah, but you still don't necessarily know that you have the right SSN. I've had two instances with SSNs, one working for a state's revenue department, the other for an insurance company in payroll. I've seen tax returns with many different people using the same SSN. (As I remember we had 13 different names/returns using one SSN!) From what I saw it was usually a family where the people didn't remember which was their own. From an employer's standpoint, you don't know if the wife uses her SSN or her husband's unless her husband joins the company (and if they use their children's SSN....). They're both valid. And if they transpose a number, good luck!

Linda

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SSN's are not recycled.

>From the SSA OIG's testimony on SSN use and misuse before congress -

                                                                            
 "The SSN is a unique identifier"                                           
                                                                            
 http://www.ssa.gov/oig/Testimony05222001.htm                               
                                                                            
 SSN is a perfectly good PK for personnel systems.  If you find duplicates  
 your employer certainly needs to know about it.                            
                                                                            
 I once had a personnel database with 25 years of personnel data (about     
 1,200,000 individuals).  When we loaded it into Oracle with the SSN as PK, 
 there was one duplicate SSN.  Of course, that employer was very            
 conscientious about requiring a valid SSN.                                 
                                                                            


                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            

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