Poll: Me and my cousin are curious do people under 27 know their social security number offhand?
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Yep. Have to use it a lot for college stuff, so I just kind of memorized because of how many times I have to repeat putting it on forms n' crap. 
I think the equivalent in the UK is the NI (National Insurance) number. We get a plastic card with it on (which I keep in my wallet).
I don't know it off by heart largely because the only times I need it are when starting a new job or changing my GP. I think I've had to write it down less than eight times in my life!
Interesting fact for fellow Brits: The mapping between NI numbers and people isn't one-to-one or even one-to-many. It's many-to-many. There are NI numbers that are assigned to multiple people, and some people have multiple NI numbers assigned to them. The combination of NI number and full name is supposedly unique, but there's no system in place to ensure that. If I were to find someone else with the same NI number as me and change my name to match theirs, we would be indistinguishable to the government (for tax purposes anyway).
I don't know it off by heart largely because the only times I need it are when starting a new job or changing my GP. I think I've had to write it down less than eight times in my life!
Interesting fact for fellow Brits: The mapping between NI numbers and people isn't one-to-one or even one-to-many. It's many-to-many. There are NI numbers that are assigned to multiple people, and some people have multiple NI numbers assigned to them. The combination of NI number and full name is supposedly unique, but there's no system in place to ensure that. If I were to find someone else with the same NI number as me and change my name to match theirs, we would be indistinguishable to the government (for tax purposes anyway).
I know my card's number. It's not a difficult thing to remember, especially when you start looking for a job. Also, it's much safer to remember it than to carry it around and possibly lose it.
If that's the US version of National Insurance, then yes.
Wait...
*Thinks*
Yep, I do.
(I'm 16 BTW)
Wait...
*Thinks*
Yep, I do.
(I'm 16 BTW)
Of course... I've heard it's a pretty new thing in USA, but not in Sweden.
Here we use it all the time.
Here we use it all the time.
I'm 24 and I know mine. Granted I didn't really learn about it until I was 17 or 18 so I don't know if that counts. Unless you're going for a part time job at 15 or 16 you don't really need to know it anyway from what I understand. At this point though my number is just useless information since you don't need to use it often unless you just can't hold a job or are trying to go to every school ever.
In the UK we don't have Social Security, but we have something similar, called National Insurance. And yes, I do know my National Insurance number by heart. I only use it for job applications, but I figured I may as well remember it since it's easier than looking it up and getting my wallet out every time I try to apply for a job
I'm 22, by the way.
I'm 22, by the way.