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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
To coffeebean: the only people who "need" your social security number is the social security office, your bank, and your employer. Now that medicare uses unique identifiers that are NOT social security numbers, you should never EVER need to put that number down for any medical reason, ever.
They ask for it on forms, but you can just leave it blank. Or you can fill in 0's or 1's. If it doesn't work, find some other way to get what you're looking for. It is illegal for them to require your social security number. It's probably just an old form that they never updated, and they just never bothered to remove it when the laws were passed forbidding them to require it.
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Of course, you can refuse to give someone your SSN, or any other information. But, a business can also refuse to do business with you if you don't provide it. I don't know of any law that makes it illegal to require an SSN to conduct business.