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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-women-one-social-security-number-mighty-big-mess-rcna70808>
"They have the same name. They were born on the same day in South Korea. And
they were both assigned the same Social Security number after they emigrated to
the United States.
This bureaucratic bungle has bedeviled Jieun Kim, of Los Angeles, and Jieun
Kim, who lives just outside Chicago in Evanston, Illinois, for almost as long
as they’ve been in this country.
Over the past five years, the 31-year-old women have had their banking and
savings accounts shut down. They have had their credit cards blocked. They have
been suspected of engaging in identity theft.
And, they say, the Social Security Administration has been either unable, or
unwilling, to rectify its mistake.
The result has been a level of frustration that LA Kim has likened to “throwing
(an) egg onto the huge rock.”
“I’m left with fear about what is in store for me as I have to deal with this
terrible aftermath of the Social Security Administration’s mistake in giving
one Social Security number to two people,” she said.
Chicagoland Kim said the SSA won’t own up to its mistake.
“This kind of mix-up can happen with Asian people because they have very
similar names,” she says she was told by its workers."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 33 Issue 62:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/33/62#subj14
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
