Social Security Number - Exhaustion and Re-use

Exhaustion and Re-use

The Social Security Administration does not reuse social security numbers. It has issued over 450 million since the start of the program, and at a use rate of about 5.5 million per year it says it has enough to last several generations without reuse or changing the number of digits.

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