Category: Social Security

• The Social Security Life-Clock

  The Social Security Life-Clock theory claimed that the federal government used Social Security numbers as more than identification records. In this theory, an SSN encoded a projected death date or actuarial lifespan that the government used to predict benefits, control costs, or decide when a person would be most financially useful or dispensable to the system. The rumor merged public anxiety about bureaucratic numbering with later awareness that SSA maintained death records and benefit calculations.