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Who got social security's lowest number 001-01-0001?

Carla Sinclair
Dec 10, 2024
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When social security numbers first came into existence in the mid-1930s, you couldn't give those numbers away. Or at least not the lowest possible SSN of them all: 001-01-0001.

Like phone numbers, social security numbers are grouped by the first three "area" numbers, which determine where in the U.S. they are ass…

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