Brett wrote:>>
Is it normal to write in your SS# on an application that you are mailing to a company? This is for a job at a university.
Thanks, Brett

This is not legal advice.

No. Technically they can not ask for it. You are not required to reveal it
until you are hired.
If they make all kinds of demands for having it, advise them that the
Privacy Act of 1974 makes it illegal for them to have it unless they are
your ermployer.
If you know how the numbering system works, there are a lot of things that
can be found out by those first five digits. Which could be a basis for
discrimination hiring policy.
Do not give it out.

"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:bhhe9s0nib@enews4.newsguy.com... Brett wrote:>> Is it normal to write in your SS# on an application that you are
mailing to a company? This is for a job at a university. Thanks, Brett This is not legal advice. No. Technically they can not ask for it. You are not required to reveal it until you are hired. If they make all kinds of demands for having it, advise them that the Privacy Act of 1974 makes it illegal for them to have it unless they are your ermployer. If you know how the numbering system works, there are a lot of things that can be found out by those first five digits. Which could be a basis for discrimination hiring policy. Do not give it out.
Well, yes. Technically they certainly can. With your next welfare check try
to buy a clue or at least read the SSN FAQ.

The Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-579, in section 7), which is the primary
law affecting the use of SSNs, requires that any federal, state, or local
government agency that requests your Social Security Number has to tell you
four things:

1. the authority (whether granted by statute, or by executive order of the
President) which authorizes the solicitation of the information and whether
disclosure of such information is mandatory or voluntary;
2. the principal purposes for which the information is intended to be used;
3. the routine uses which may be made of the information, as published
annually in the Federal Register, and
4. the effects on you, if any, of not providing all or any part of the
requested information.

The Act requires state and local agencies which request the SSN to inform
the individual of only three things:

1. whether the disclosure is mandatory or voluntary,
2. by what statutory or other authority the SSN is solicited, and
3. what uses will be made of the number.