VA State School Job Application - Asking for Original SSN Card?
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Anonymous
Huh. Do you yours from when you were a baby? Is this actually something most people have? I have never once needed it. I’ve never had one as an adult. If my parents had one for me, they never mentioned it. I’ve had a passport since I was 14, and my kid has had one since she was 5. That’s all we’ve ever needed. |
Anonymous
DP. Yes, I have my SS card from when I was a baby and my three kids all have theirs. They also have passports, so will probably never need to show their SS cards. But we all have ours. |
Anonymous
| Do not put an original SS card into the mail. Because of fraud concerns, it is a nightmare ti get a replacement card. |
Anonymous
| I have had to present my original SS card for every job I have ever had. A passport will work, too, as well as a formal birth certificate. The I9 verification is to prove you are legally allowed to work in the US. |
Anonymous
| actually it's not for I-9. instead it's to "confirm Form W-4 info is correct." ok fine but why must it be the original card? absurd. |
Anonymous
DP: I have my card and my kids’ SSN cards. They’re stored in a safe along with the passports and other important documents. Seems odd to never have had a SSN card for yourself or your kids. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]actually it's not for I-9. instead it's to "confirm Form W-4 info is correct." ok fine but why must it be the original card? absurd.[/quote]
Yeah, that’s weird. The W-4 is about tax deduction withholding, completely separate and distinct from I-9 employment verification. And the IRS instructions for W-4 say nothing about requiring a copy of the SSN. Maybe the person isn’t explaining it well or your student isn’t understanding? |
Anonymous
it's on the info packet distributed to all interested students DC took a picture of that W-4/VA-4 section to show me the exact languages. |
Anonymous
If you got a SSN for your child, then you must have been given the card. As far as I am aware, most people do this when the baby is born. I think it might be in the set of docs the hospital gives, one of which is for ordering a copy of the birth certificate. Our DMV also requires the SSN (not the physical card, just the number) to issue a new state ID/learner permit/license. |
Anonymous
i'm really curious why the school demanded that. millions of new hires fill out the W-4 all the time without HR asking for original card. makes no sense. |
Anonymous
Of course she has a SSN and we know what it is (we file taxes, after all). I think we did get a card when she was a baby, but hell if I know where it is after 3 moves. I’ve never had one, as I said, or needed one (if my parents had it, which it sounds like they must have, they never gave it to me), so I guess I never figured the physical card was important after nearly 50 years without it. Didn’t need DD’s to get her a passport at age 5, and the passport is all we’ve ever needed to get anything else (like learner’s and license). I’m inclined not to worry about trying to get a reissued card at this point when a passport seems to work for everything, but we’ll see. |
Anonymous
| I’m sure Elon Musk in now in possession of all our kids’ SSNs anyway… |
Anonymous
They didn’t give it to you because you can’t even keep track of your child’s card. |
Anonymous
+1 The W-4 and VA-4 are just the withholding forms. You have to write in your SSN but there is no language on the form itself about requiring the original SSN card. The I-9 form explicitly allows a passport, and in fact an SSN card isn’t enough on its own because it doesn’t have a photo so you need a second ID with it, while a valid passport doesn’t need anything else. Baffling to me why the school is asking for this. |
Anonymous
Uh, I’m not the OP. Mine are in a safe (though that’s probably a futile effort given how much our data has been compromised on a national level). |