(Side note: Jim McCoy's suggestion that kids can be kept off the parental-unit's tax returns and thus not get a SS number is fraught with problems. Many schools--including public schools--use the SS number for various internal and tracking reasons. Even if the kid is free of SS numbers until he's a teenager--at a cost of thousands of dollars a year in IRS deductions not taken--he'll essentially have to have an SS number in his high school years, for a variety of reasons. Maybe this can be avoided, but I doubt the reward is worth the hassles.)
I recently enrolled my kid in school. On a form they asked what her SSn was. I just left the form blank. Later when they asked me about it, I asked if it was =required=, prepared to have them provide me with stautory citations. They said it was not required, but that they needed a way to keep records. I suggested they use her name. Since that wouldn't work with their computer, I suggested they make one up that fit the program. ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 11/13/96 Time: 23:10:57 Visit http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum EARTH FIRST! We'll strip mine the other planets later. ------------------------