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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
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Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Steve Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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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)
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