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The first three digits of the social security number are useful in locating individual people because it shows the state that the person applied for it in. It is nearly always regarded as the person's home state, a state where they were probably born, a state to which they may return. It is also a state they very well may have friends or relatives to visit, stay with or receive help from. Somewhere in your investigative search, collection efforts, contacts, a county, city or town in that state might be referred to and may lead you to your missing person.
The middle two digits of the social security number are the group number and have no geographical significance. They just break the SSN into conveniently sized blocks for use in internal operations and order of issuance. SSN's are not reassigned when people die. Benefits may be payable to dependents and survivors or the SSN holder long after the social security number holder dies. The SSN is used to administer the payment of these benefits. The current 9-digit number provides almost 1 billion SSNs. Roughly 378 million SSNs have been issued.
The last four digits of the social security number are the serial number; representing a straight numerical series of numbers from 0001-9999 within each group.
Invalid SSNsAny SSN conforming to one of the following criteria is an invalid number: Any field all zeroes (no field of zeroes is ever assigned).
First three digits above 740
The key to determining the state in which the Social Security Card was issued is the first 3 numbers of the SS number.When all else fails, do a surname only search in your subjects home state. You are pretty much guaranteed to talk with family members who might have a lead for you.
***A last note - Canadian Social Insurance numbers (SIN#), which are the equivalant of the SSN, can be the same as a number issued in the USA. SO if you have a number that doesn't show up in the USA, try it in a Canadian database - You just may find it there. Example: I entered a Canadian friend's SIN# into a USA database and came up with a SSN issued in Texas/year issued, ect...
This list shows every state abbreviation of the first 3 tell-tale numbers.
001 - 003 New Hampshire
004 to 007 Maine ME
008 to 009 Vermont VT
010 to 034 Massachusetts MA
035 to 039 Rhode Island RI
040 to 049 Connecticut CT
050 to 134 New York NY
135 to 158 New Jersey NJ
159 to 211 Pennsylvania PA
212 to 220 Maryland MD
221 to 222 Delaware DE
223 to 231 Virginia VA
232 to 236 West Virginia WV
237 to 246 North Carolina NC
247 to 251 South Carolina SC
252 to 260 Georgia GA
261 to 267 and 589 to 595 Florida FL
260 to 302 Ohio OH
303 to 317 Indiana IN
318 to 361 Illinois IL
362 to 386 Michigan MI
387 to 399 Wisconsin WI
400 to 407 Kentucky KY
408 to 415 Tennessee TN
416 to 424 Alabama AL
425 to 428 and 587 to 588 Mississippi MS
429 to 432 Arkansas AR
433 to 439 Louisiana LA
440 to 448 Oklahoma OK
449 to 467 and 627 to 645 Texas TX
468 to 477 Minnesota MN
478 to 485 Iowa IA
486 to 500 Missouri MO
501 to 502 North Dakota ND
503 to 504 South Dakota SD
505 to 508 Nebraska NE
509 to 515 Kansas KS
516 to 517 Montana MT
518 to 519 Idaho ID
520 Wyoming WY
521 to 524 Colorado CO
525 and 585 New Mexico NM
526 to 527 and 600 to 601 Arizona AZ
530 Nevada NV
531 to 539 Washington WA
540 to 544 Oregon OR
545 to 573 and 602 to 626 California CA
574 Alaska AK
575 to 576 Hawaii HI
577 to 579 District of Columbia DC
580 Virgin Islands
587 to 588 Mississippi MS
589 to 595 Florida FL
528 to 529 & 646 to 647 Utah UT
648 to 649 New Mexico NM
581 - 585 Puerto Rico & Guam & American Samoa & Philippine Islands
586 - Guam & Mariana Island & American Samoa & Philippine Islands
650-699 unassigned, for future use
700-728 Railroad workers through 1963, then discontinued
729-799 unassigned, for future use
800-999 not valid SSNs.
Some sources have claimed that numbers above 900 were used when some state programs were converted to federal control, but current Social Security Administration documents claim no numbers above 799 have ever been used.
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