What do the numbers on the back of your SS card mean?

The nine-digit SSN is composed of three parts: The first set of three digits is called the Area Number. The second set of two digits is called the Group Number. The final set of four digits is the Serial Number.

Is your Social Security number a secret bank account?

Your Social Security Number is a secret bank account The story goes that people have a private “secret” account at the Federal Reserve and that they can pay bills or get money out of the account using the routing number of the Fed and their Social Security Number.

How do you find out if a deceased person has a bank account?

Locate Local Institutions If you are the executor or administrator of the deceased person’s estate, you can take identification, a certified death certificate and accompanying probate court paperwork showing your appointment to local banks near the deceased’s residence. Request a search for assets held at the bank.

What is the number on the back of a Social Security card?

It’s not the number that you look up it’s the letter. All letters on the back of social security cards is linked to a certain Federal Reserve Bank for example The letter H. Is for a Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis?

Which Federal Reserve Bank is my Social Security number linked to?

There is no federal reserve bank that your social security number is linked to. A claim otherwise is a scam. The only accounts at the Fed are for member banks. No private citizen can have a federal reserve account, even if they tried to set one up.

What does the red/blue/black number on my SS-card mean?

The red/blue/black number is tied to a federal reserve bank. There are 12 FRBs. The first letter on the back of your ss-card is the letter that corresponds on the seal of the one dollar bill. Mine is a G…so since G is the 7th letter in the alphabet, a one dollar bill that has a “G” seal is also the 7th FRB.

How can you tell if a Social Security card is legitimate?

And a bit more detail from a speech by Donald Walton, a U.S. bankruptcy trustee, on eight “key signs that can identify a subject social security card as either legitimate or fraudulent.” Here’s #7: 7. Sequential Control Number. On the rear of a legitimate card there is a sequential control number.