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Show Lost Card? Here's How to Get Another Normally it takes from 2 to 3 weeks to replace a social security card that has been . lost. It takes about the same lengljh of time to get an original social security sec-urity card. Quite often people come )nto the Social Security Office' Of-fice' expecting "to get their number immediately. This is possible only if the person requesting the card is currently cur-rently getting monthly social soc-ial security benefits. In almost al-most all other situations it is necessary to correspond with : Baltimore, . Maryland (Social' Security's main office) of-fice) to get the information necessary to release a new card'. .Using a. hew .procedure available in the Grand Junction Junc-tion District Office it is sometimes possible to get a new card within 48 hours if you have your social security secur-ity number. . John Wainwright, district manager of Social Security in Grand Junction, advised those persons who are going go-ing to need1 a social security number in the near future, to get it now, don't wait until un-til the last minute. Although a social security number is used, by employers employ-ers to record wages paid to workers, it has other uses. Internal Revenue will insist in-sist that each taxpayer have a social security number for the income tax report that must be filed by April 15. Banks will insist .that depositors de-positors have a social security sec-urity number for reporting interest earned on accounts. Even little children who have interest bearing deposits depos-its must have social security numbers. The social security number is becoming more and more the number for identification in schools, military service and banks. There is no age limit for social security number card holders. Primary purpose for a number is to credit earnings to a worker's account. These earnings throughout the workers life are recorded to this one number and are the basis for social security benefits ben-efits the worker or his family fam-ily will receive one day because be-cause of old age, death or ditbility, Make sure your employer records your number num-ber correctly. If you can't get to the social soc-ial security office in Grand Junction or see the representative represent-ative when he is in your area, ar-ea, ask your local .post office of-fice for an application form, complete it and mail it today. to-day. . - . . Mr. Herman Frame,' social security representative, will be in Moab, Utah at the Employment Em-ployment Office on February Febru-ary 10, 1970 betwen 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. |
