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Posted: 1:03 PM Dec 4, 2009
NC School Mails Student Social Security Numbers
Officials at a North Carolina school district are blaming a programming error for mailing 5,000 postcards with student Social Security numbers printed on them.
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Officials at a North Carolina school district are blaming a programming error for mailing 5,000 postcards with student Social Security numbers printed on them.
WRAL-TV reports the postcards were mailed to parents across the Wake County district with their children's' Social Security numbers printed on the address labels. The cards were mailed Tuesday and have been arriving at homes throughout the week.
A spokesman for the school district said the students were in middle school and high school. The error was a result of a system no longer in place which uses Social Security numbers as student ID numbers.
The school is offering affected families a year of free credit report checks at a value of $20 per family.
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Posted by: Anonymous
on Dec 5, 2009 at 08:49 AM
you can refuse to give you ssn but you will not be able to get loans, go into the military, the list goes on and on. The military used your social for your id when I was in. The sims system was originally set up to use ssn for the students. Years ago before id theft starting running rampant. The new system NCWISE don't use ssn for student id's. I didn't think anyone was still using SIMS though.
Posted by: GUMBY
on Dec 5, 2009 at 12:38 AM
A ss no. is for employment, nothing else. No wonder so much ID theft. You have the right to refuse to give your ss id dl, except for employment purposes.
Posted by: teacher
Location: nc
on Dec 4, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Pete, this has nothing to do with teachers. This is a SIMS error. Do we know who mailed out the letters? They should have noticed this.
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