Re: SSN Validity Checking

Steve,

There is a system, and I have coded for it (in COBOL).  The
documentation can be retrieved from the Social Security
Administration publications.  The problem I have found with
this publication, It has (or for the longest time was) not
updated.  It was SEVERAL years out of date, and I had to
guess how many sequence numbers had been assigned.  The 2nd
two digits are not assigned in numeric order, but are
assigned in even numbers through part of the set, then odd
numbers, then who know how after that.  If you find that
the documentation has been upgraded, please let me know.  I
would love to fix my programing to reflect something other
than the 70's.

Hope this helps!!!


On Wed, 22 May 2002 08:45:35 -0500  Steve wrote;

>
> Listers-
>
> Does anyone know of a way to check a Social Security
> Number for validity?
> (I.E. - A clerk enters an SSN on a screen and we want to
> be sure that the
> clerk didn't enter '123-45-6789' or some such nonsense.)
>
> Thanks (and yes, it probably should be on the RPG list
> but I don't
> subscribe to that!  :-)  ),
>
> Steve
>
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Jim Essinger
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Student Loan Fund of Idaho
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