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Your Social Security Number: The 9-Digit Evolution

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  • Jeannette N. Bennett

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Your unique 9-digit Social Security number follows you throughout your lifetime. How did this number’s importance evolve? Discover answers in the January 2020 issue of Page One Economics: Focus on Finance, which traces Social Security number usage from its beginning in 1935 to current times.

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  • Jeannette N. Bennett, 2020. "Your Social Security Number: The 9-Digit Evolution," Page One Economics Newsletter, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlpo:88569
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