Back before the Trump era had even begun, there was a website that Fidelity administered (there were one or two others before them) I found out about the bonds uncle scam had taken out on every person with a ssn #. This was big concern as people were questioning why a baby was now being required to have an ssn.
I was born in the 50's. By the time I was in junior high the gov't said we did not need to wait until we got a job we could get one now. Up until then the only people required to have ssn# were those employed to facilitate paying income tax. I asked my parents if I could get one and they declared absolutely not, and not until I needed one would we talk about this again. I got my first job not working at home, but when I was in college in the 70's. I got my SSN without talking to them Fast forward a few years and I am married with children (no pun intended but I did love that show then). Now as my wife and are starting to enroll OUR children in school they were saying for the first that they would enroll our kid but we would have to get a ssn for them soon. By the time it was our 3rd kid, no ssn # equals no enrollment. Fast forward a few more years and I could see that my children would soon be parents we learned that newborns would now be required an ssn when born. When I learned this, I could see first hand the progressive incremental baby steps towards totalitarianism which always leads to tyranny and corruption. This got me to asking why were they doing this? I learned that our government had started taking out bonds (borrowing money) against the taxes paid by each and every taxpayer. As time had passed, they were no longer satisfied to wait on borrowing that money until you ha1d a job, they moved younger⁹ to when you went to school, and later to the moment you are born. The unique identifier for the bonds was and i presume still is the ssn. I wanted proof, and found it in an email (before text days but web was up and running). I looked up myself, my wife, my kids and would show anybody that listened and make believers of them. I was just one of many, so I am not trying to take credit for finding the site, or even the biggest sharer, I just did my part where and when I could. Then one day it was not there. I learned Fidelity had put it behind a firewall. I still have the email and instructions archived somewhere, but I do not think they will prove fruitful. One last point, I learned later that if you had an account at Fidelity that got you in behind the firewall. I never an account with them, so I do not know. Lastly, I do remember that most of.the bonds were denominated in $500,000 increments. Mine was 500,000 and my wife's was a million. I did not get a degree but she did. Even though my biz was way better paying than her career. So I never learned all the criteria. But most bonds were either 500,000 or 1 mil. Some were lower and some were higher, but most were one of those two numbers. I hope this helps... WWG1WGA in Texas