I used to work Customer Service for SSA at a call center. When a person would call in their info would pop up on the screen as the call dropped in because they were required to enter their SSN prior to being connected. We always knew where the person was most likely calling from by the first few numbers of their SSN.
Now we were told that there was little possibility of SSA running out of numbers for many, many years when we started to notice that the numbers assigned to border states (CA, AZ, NM, FL) were reaching the top of their assigned numbers and the names were almost always Hispanic.
Then during Obama, (2011 to be exact) we were told that the numbers were no longer going to be assigned by the region/state, they were going to be assigned by Baltimore as they came in, so you no longer knew where the people were from when they applied. You didn’t fool us workers. We knew back then it was to hide the increased number of people entering the country, mainly through the southern border. One of the additional jobs we had was working a report called the IRS mismatch. Whenever an employer reported wages for someone to the IRS the IRS checked the information with SSA. If there was a mismatch between the reported information and the information on file, it would create extra work for SSA. Letters would be sent to the employer to verify the info. 98 out of 100 times the name reported by the employer was Hispanic; however, it was not a Hispanic name in SSA’s records. If the employer responded with the same info he reported earlier (because he was attesting that the info he provided was what he allegedly saw on their SSN Card), then SSA had to search its records to see if there was possibly a match between their name and date of birth to someone already in the system. If so, the correct number would be provided to the IRS. If we couldn’t verify the SSN, then multiple letters would be sent to the person’s known and/or last known address requesting that they verify their info. 99 out of 100 of these letters were not responded to. Another interesting thing we noticed was that many of the Hispanic names what were reported by the IRS to SSA were different from the reported Hispanic names in SSA’s file and the wages being reported were for newborns! In many cases, there were multiple wage reports for the same SSN.
WE knew what was happening then, but to say anything labeled you as a whack job conspiracy theorist