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  • Lourdes's brother has a friend in Los Angeles who helps Lourdes get a fake Social Security card and a job.†   (source)
  • The facility was notoriously expensive, but because my dad had a government pension, Social Security, Medicare, and private insurance to boot (I could imagine him signing, on the insurance salesman's dotted line years before without really understanding what he was paying for), I was assured that the only cost would be emotional.†   (source)
  • If I took out federal, state and local taxes and social security I'd get Aires' car fixed in…. never.†   (source)
  • They didn't even pay social security for her.†   (source)
  • She was a fifty-four-year-old widow living off a small pension and social security with five kids still left to raise.†   (source)
  • He states his name, birthdate, and Social Security number.†   (source)
  • He walks to our truck and comes back with passports, birth certificates, social security cards, checkbooks, credit cards and bank cards, and drops them on the ground.†   (source)
  • "To get a Social Security card," the man explained patiently, "you need to have a birth certificate."†   (source)
  • Social Security number.†   (source)
  • And to pay into Social Security.†   (source)
  • Social Security cards.†   (source)
  • They have two teenage children and live on Social Security payments.†   (source)
  • No Social Security card, no driver's license, no address, no living will, no job, no lawn to mow, no phone call to return, no retirement to plan for and no rules except his own.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell anyone else, because if I had, our parents would have known we were in the house and we'd have been grounded till our Social Security kicked in.†   (source)
  • The name was followed by a social security number, neatly printed on the cover.†   (source)
  • Then I found this bill right in with all the jewelry and junk and her Social Security card, and that's when I knew Conchetta Pignati was not in California.†   (source)
  • And when we move into town, Papa says, that name makes gettin' that Social Security card a lot easier.†   (source)
  • It contained her new driver's license, social security card, work permit, and all the cash she possessed.†   (source)
  • It was easy enough; he'd always had Caroline's Social Security number, and he had her address too.†   (source)
  • It was enough that I, a proven citizen with a Social Security card, was willing to swear on pain of I-don't-know-what (and sign documents to that effect) that they were all who they said they were.†   (source)
  • Instead of merely listing the name of each dependent child, tax filers were now required to provide a Social Security number.†   (source)
  • "Are we talking birth certificates, death certificates, drivers' licenses, passports, social security cards… ?"†   (source)
  • "My father and every other man realized that they did not have social security and hence they invested in male children," Tererai says.†   (source)
  • He worked hard in school and earned a full scholarship to a well-known college in Boston, but just as he was about to start school, the scholarship offer was taken back because the young man didn't have a Social Security number.†   (source)
  • "I take it Mom and Dad aren't exactly ready for Social Security."†   (source)
  • A passport or Social Security card would do.†   (source)
  • Five hundred dollars, his driver's license, phone numbers on slips of paper, social security card, airline ticket stub, cleaners receipts.†   (source)
  • If you had a problem with the Social Security Administration, John would help you with that.†   (source)
  • Cindy handed her a piece of paper with Jenks's Social Security number on it.†   (source)
  • A letter arrived that same week from the Social Security Administration stating that, under the provisions of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Act Of 1935, she would receive monthly support for herself and her dependent children until they reached the age of eighteen, and a burial allowance of $250.†   (source)
  • The Social Security Select Committee is releasing its report at five o'clock.†   (source)
  • He was handed a stack of forms containing a host of questions that seemed to have nothing to do with infectious diseases: birth date, Social Security number, grade school achievements, shoe size.†   (source)
  • Birth place and date, Social Security number, state of residence?†   (source)
  • He possessed ID in a new name: birth certificate, social security card, three major credit cards, a driver's license.†   (source)
  • It's not the third of the month when the Social Security checks come or the time for whatever check comes on the first.†   (source)
  • Ever since Apa had to go four times to clear up some mistake with Joon's Social Security number, he has become paranoid that people are trying to trick him.†   (source)
  • No birth certificates, no driver's licenses, no social security numbers, no bank accounts, no deeds, no electric bills, no school records, no credit cards, no nothing!†   (source)
  • I believe in the politics that wrote the GI Bill, that passed the Marshall Plan to rebuild a war-devastated Europe, that saved the Great Lakes, and that through Social Security took want and terror out of old age.†   (source)
  • She was glad, she said, because she was afraid if they locked him up she might lose some of her Social Security benefits.†   (source)
  • I went on: "Let's see what else— Social security.†   (source)
  • Social Security just got solvent overnight.†   (source)
  • For food you have Social Security.†   (source)
  • She obtained a Social Security card under the name Judy Grant and took a job in a grocery.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, Edna did not receive her Social Security check for Five months after the boycott.†   (source)
  • It makes us irritable, and when your supper comes, no Jell-O. CLUMLY: Do you know your social security number?†   (source)
  • Why would someone his age need a Social Security number?†   (source)
  • Someone's grandmother who blew her monthly Social Security check on crack.†   (source)
  • Her social security check barely covered her living expenses, let alone classes and books.†   (source)
  • Grudgingly, and a bit suspiciously, the man printed out a Social Security card.†   (source)
  • And even if she got a job somewhere, she would need a social security card and an address.†   (source)
  • My Social Security only seven hundred fifty dollar.†   (source)
  • You have my name, my Social Security card—here," I said, reaching in my pocket for pen and paper.†   (source)
  • And in the blank for Social Security number he'd put down, "228-31-6704.†   (source)
  • I think I've even got his Social Security number around here somewhere.'†   (source)
  • At any rate, I urge you to be very careful with your Social Security number in future.†   (source)
  • She listed $732 per month from Social Security Disability and $10 per month in food stamps.†   (source)
  • "Social Security people said everything was all in my head," she told me.†   (source)
  • You have a Social Security number, don't you?"†   (source)
  • Maybe you can pull up a Social Security number and driver's license number, as well as references.†   (source)
  • She made up a name and social security number.†   (source)
  • He asked for her social security number and telephone number.†   (source)
  • She had to put names and social security numbers to these people.†   (source)
  • I know what you're thinking: Did I try our birthdays or our Social Security numbers?†   (source)
  • And I need Jenks's Social Security number."†   (source)
  • "No Social Security number, no driver's license, no school records, no credit history, no nothing.†   (source)
  • Birth certificate, social security card, things like that.†   (source)
  • Bublanski wrote down the name and a social security number that Granlund gave him.†   (source)
  • During the day, he filed papers at a Social Security office.†   (source)
  • We've drawn social security numbers at random within that demographic."†   (source)
  • To this point, though, she hadn't used her own social security number.†   (source)
  • "I'm already using a safe social security number," she said.†   (source)
  • "There's no Ronald Niedermann in the social security records in Sweden.†   (source)
  • He didn't find the social security card, but he had the number.†   (source)
  • He doesn't have a social security number in Sweden.†   (source)
  • --and what would they do with no social security coming in?†   (source)
  • With TruYou, to set up a profile, you have to be a real person, with a real address, complete personal info, a real Social Security number, a real and verifiable date of birth.†   (source)
  • In addition she had no money to pay heating bills, and light bills, and phone bills, sending every dime she had from my stepfather's pension and her small work salary and social security to my siblings in college and grad school.†   (source)
  • All of the documents Henri had created for me: birth certificates, social security cards, visas, and so on.†   (source)
  • He needs a checkup, and maybe the hospital can help him sign up for Social Security disability, which would pay for a place to live.†   (source)
  • When I'd first enrolled in the OASIS public school system, I was required to give them my real name, avatar name, mailing address, and Social Security number.†   (source)
  • She now had a Social Security card that said his name was Michael Jerome Williams and a student I.D. that said his name was Michael Jerome Ober.†   (source)
  • His doctors have just told him his recovery is proceeding nicely, and he's been approved for a Social Security disability check that will cover the cost of housing if he chooses to move indoors.†   (source)
  • "Anyway," Art said offhandedly, "someone like you could live in the number-one unit for the same as what you get each month for Social Security.†   (source)
  • He remembered that you needed a Social Security number to open a bank accounl; and his parents had presented him with his own bankbook and $50 deposited in his name on his tenth birthday.†   (source)
  • This assignment, in simple terms, was to identify four social security numbers based on extremely vague data.†   (source)
  • I made Bryce twenty-two years old and gave him a brand-new Social Security number, an immaculate credit rating, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.†   (source)
  • The Social Security number turned out to be genuine and placed McCandless's permanent residence in northern Virginia.†   (source)
  • She was an expert at digging up information on just about anybody, but her starting point had always been a name and a social security number for a living person.†   (source)
  • That how much I get Social Security!†   (source)
  • "You've been issued six Social Security cards in the last eighteen months," said the man from Social Security.†   (source)
  • For other residents, a disability check helps pay the bills, but Nathaniel has been off the books for years and claims to have no interest in applying for Social Security.†   (source)
  • Social Security number: "I forget."†   (source)
  • There were employees from the Vanger Corporation, waitresses in restaurants where he regularly ate, reception staff in hotels, clerks at the social security office, the secretaries of business associates, and many other women.†   (source)
  • To the Social Security administrator she said, "I promise if you give us just one more, it'll be the last time we ask."†   (source)
  • I have a Social Security card.†   (source)
  • That was when she'd applied for Social Security disability, she said, which she only got after several court appearances.†   (source)
  • And then—checking into it—we found out that some party with access to your Social Security number had applied for, and received, a rather large line of credit in your name.†   (source)
  • Then they went back to the Social Security office, where the man behind the desk looked at the dummied-up Briar-crest I.D. and got cold feet.†   (source)
  • Armed with the Social Security card, the birth certificate, and the letter from Principal Simpson of the Briarcrest Christian School, they drove the next day to the Department of Motor Vehicles.†   (source)
  • Sorry, I don't have it on me, it's in the safe back at the hotel —but —" producing my New York State ID, my credit cards, my Social Security card, pushing them through the window.†   (source)
  • She put the problem to Hugh Freeze, and Hugh told her that it was the easiest thing in the world to drive out to the Social Security Administration Office and get a Social Security card.†   (source)
  • Leigh Anne tried to explain that they only needed the card so that they might obtain a driver's license, but the man remained firm: with so many terrorists on the loose he couldn't be handing out Social Security cards to people without other personal identification.†   (source)
  • In 1985, I sold the shop and started collecting Social Security; in 1987, after forty years in the classroom, Ruth did the same.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Connors next to the dry cleaners had told him to come back at the end of the month when her Social Security check came from the government but he didn't have the heart to tell her that it would probably be too late by then.†   (source)
  • Even when she combined her small salary with her parents' social security, there was barely enough to cover the basics, and sometimes not even that.†   (source)
  • Okay, a rock star with fans who collected Social Security checks, but as far as she could tell, he seemed both flattered and flustered by the unexpected attention.†   (source)
  • The address was right, and every other detail from his date of birth to his Social Security number—all these were correct.†   (source)
  • She did manage to get his Social Security and driver's license numbers, and as she sat at Pete Gandy's desk, she typed those into the computer.†   (source)
  • While this may have been scary news in terms of Medicare and Social Security, the average American had little to fear from the growing horde of oldsters.†   (source)
  • The receptionist, who looked old enough to have been drawing social security for years, was reading a paperback novel.†   (source)
  • Lonny knew how to game the system, and if Lonny had so chosen he could have obtained a Social Security number, a driver's license in any state he wanted, even a passport.†   (source)
  • Social Security?†   (source)
  • And the nut jobs at the School had mysteriously neglected to register any of us with the Social Security Administration.†   (source)
  • Many Carl Hayden students didn't have Social Security numbers or green cards and couldn't get normal jobs even if they did graduate from college.†   (source)
  • Bernice existed on Social Security disability benefits, food stamps, and the prescription drugs provided to her by TennCare, the state's noble but misguided effort at providing health care to indigents.†   (source)
  • Name, Social Security number, latest address, previous address, bank account number—she hit paydirt.†   (source)
  • One boy was able to call his mother, who arrived in the nick of time with her son's Social Security card, but his friend wasn't so lucky and was deported.†   (source)
  • "The real Richard Franklin wasn't married, and aside from his mother—who passed away in a nursing home last year—there was no one to notice if his Social Security number was back in use.†   (source)
  • Unless she was willing to live a life continually on the run, she needed a real birth certificate and a real social security number.†   (source)
  • It occupied about 1,400 square feet in the same building that housed the public library and the regional social security office, and it was manned in the daytime by three officers.†   (source)
  • She'd seen the birth certificate and the social security card next to the photo and recognized the opportunity they presented.†   (source)
  • On the front of the envelope was a social security number, and he took the pad of paper and his pen and wrote it down.†   (source)
  • In Philadelphia, she'd used a phony name and phony social security number, but that couldn't last forever unless she was willing to keep on living in cheap hotels and changing jobs every few weeks.†   (source)
  • She would have done the same with the social security card, but she couldn't make a good enough copy and she hoped that if they noticed it was missing, they would believe it had been lost or misplaced.†   (source)
  • PRISONER: Pick-up-sticks shut-the-door gone-to-heaven … MILLER: Come on, Chief, nobody knows their social security number.†   (source)
  • And now a room with half-dead rubber plants, a black formica-topped coffee table (round) with six-month-old magazines in plastic covers and pamphlets: Your Social Security, The Older Veteran.†   (source)
  • Social security.†   (source)
  • Clyde was arrested by the very definite sense of social security and ease that seemed to reside in everybody.†   (source)
  • They tittered politely, but they did not move from the social security of their circle, and they did not cease staring.†   (source)
  • For these local families of distinction were convinced that not only one's family but one's wealth was the be-all and end-all of every happy union meant to include social security.†   (source)
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