SSN Social Security Numbers Is A 9-digit Coding Primarily Composed Of Three-parts With The Part Consisting Of 3-numbers, The Second Part 2, And The Last Part 4-numbers. These Numbers Are Subject To Decoding And A Myth Goes From Time-to-time That The Social Security Numbers Are A Key To A Persons Date And Place Of Birth As Well As Race. Yet While The Social Security Number Of One Person Signifies So Much About His Status, The Numbers In His Social Security Card Doesnt In-itself Mean So Much Than Intended.The Social Security Numbers Was Created Back In 1936 As Program Administrators Needed Some Way To Organize Their Social Security Filing Cabinets Into Sub-groups. And Because There Were No Computers And All The Records Were Stored In Filing-cabinets, They Needed A Schema That Would Make Things More Manageable The Main Objective Of Social Security Numbers. And While It Is True That Each SSN Belongs To A Distinct Person Therefore Also Having Distinct Identifying Information, None Of These Information Are Encoded In The Social Security Number Itself. Because The Application Form For A Social Security Number Asks For The Applicants Record Information Like Birth Date And Place, Parents Names And Optionally Race, Most People Think That These Are Immediately Reflected In Their Numbers. However A Greater Factor Contributing To This Misconception Is The Fact That People Dont Know Anything About The Real Indication Behind Their Social Security Numbers. The First Part Of The SSN Is Called The Area Number. The Area Number Determines The Geographical-area Where The Social Security Number Was Issued And Not Necessarily The Area Where A Person Was Born. Also Neither That The Area Number In A Persons SSN Necessarily Imply The Place Where The Card-holder Holds Permanent Residence, Although The SSA Has Based The Area Number On The ZIP Code Of A Persons Mailing Address Since 1972. It Is Only Coincidental If A Persons Mailing Address (ZIP), Permanent Residence, Andor His Birth Place Are All One And The Same Therefore Reflected In The Area Number In His Social Security Number. What The Public Could Notice However Is That People On The East-coast Have The Lowest Numbers And Those On The West-coast Have The Highest Numbers. This Is Because The Social Security (Area) Numbers Were Assigned Beginning In The Northeast Moving Towards The Westward Regions. The Second Part Of The SSN Is Called Group Number. Since It Is Called Group Number, Most People Think That The 2-digits Designate The Card-holder According To Groupracial Categories Identifiable By Particular (group) Numbers. The Numbers However Are Solely For Administrative Reasons. The Group Numbers Issued First Consist Of ODD Numbers 01-09, Then, EVEN Numbers 10-98, And Then EVEN Groups 02-08, Followed By ODD Groups 11-99. Within Each Area, The Group Numbers Range From 01-99 And Are Intentionally Not Assigned In Consecutive Order.The Last 4-digits Called Serial Numbers Also Dont Have Any Bearing On A Persons Race. It Runs Consecutively From 0001-9999 Specifying Group Numbers.
