Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal Subject: Re: SS numbers etc.-A few comments Message-ID: <285@cepu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 08:11:33 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.285 Posted: Wed Jun 20 08:11:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:38:22 EDT References: <2802@rabbit.UUCP> <730@cca.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Steve Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 14 In article <730@cca.UUCP> dee@cca.UUCP writes: >A lot of people in the military just print their social security number >on their checks, along with address and phone number. Maybe they are >anti-paranoid. No, this is a holdover from the time when the Armed Forces had service numbers. Most stores near Bases like to see the persons SN on the check (as part of the printed information) Post/Base Exchanges require it. However since sometime in the '70s the Armed Forces have been using SSNs instead of unique SN sets (less numbers to keep around). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"