DMV wants me to "apply" for credit?

Oh I get it.....so say your Baby's Daddy has his wages garnished by the District Attorney for child support. Say he doesn't want to pay so he works *under the table*. DA can't garnish what he isn't earning (under his SSN that is). But say he needs to renew his license, etc. Now the DA just got his new information because the DMV released it to state agencies! I get it....better hope he doesn't have a warrant as well!

So this whole SSN b.s. is to basically to help locate people that are "hiding" and to rid the country of illegal immigrants??? What about for those that have nothing to hide but just want their stuff private? Just because you are "hiding" doesn't necessarily mean that you have something to hide. Maybe you just don't want to be found???

 

I know why universities *like* to have it...I went to a state univ that required the number under authority from the state but actually assigned a student ID number to all students--foreign students obviously don't have SSNs. Most schools will require the SSN if you are getting any sort of gov't financial aid. That's because the US Dept of Education that runs the federal financial aid application--which 99.999% of schools base their own finaid on--requires the student's and even parents' SSN for processing. BUT the school I go to now assigned me a dummy number because I'm a "cash" student in that my company pays for my classes so there's no federal reporting requirement like finaid students.

Note that some schools have seen the light and are assigning dummy numbers for all students--but they'll still need the SSN only if you're using the federal finaid application:



www.ed.gov


8. Social Security Number (SSN). Generally, you must have an SSN to be eligible for federal student financial aid. If you submit a FAFSA without an SSN, your FAFSA will be returned to you unprocessed. The Privacy Act statement gives information about how your SSN may be used.

To apply for an SSN or to get a replacement Social Security card if yours has been lost or stolen, contact your local Social Security office. For additional information (in English or Spanish), you can call the SSA at 800-772-1213 or go to its web site at www.ssa.gov.

The one exception to the SSN requirement is for students from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau. If you are from one of these areas and do not have an SSN, you should leave Question 8 blank and send your FAFSA to the following address â?? not to the address on the FAFSA or the FAFSA envelope:

Federal Student Aid Programs
P.O. Box 4010
Mount Vernon, IL 62864-8610

 

Even more interesting is my daughter's school sent home a form asking for parent info--who the child's legal parents/guardians are. Fine, I can understand why they need that. But on this same short form, they also asked for the parents' SSN's and driver's license numbers...hello?! WHY?!

I called the school and asked that very question...no answer, other than "we are required to ask for it." Needless to say I filled in our names and left the identifying information (SSN, DL) questions blank. Why on earth would a school need our SSN if we weren't applying for school lunch or something else like that? Too weird.

If they ask for ID when I pick her up, fine--that's even a good idea. But I don't think that they need our SSN's, what with the damage that could be done with that information.