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Question for a lawyer or other legal expert...
Is it against the law or borderline illegal to use someone's social security
number in a legal process when it is NOT for anything fraudulent or shady?
Example: I'm filling out some paperwork to have wages garnished from someone I
have a judgment on. On the first page with all the other info, it asks for the
defendant's social security number.
I've heard it go both ways, that writing down and submitting ANYTHING with a
person's SS# on it without their consent, can be grounds for criminal or civil
action.
Is this true?
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Well, the info is right there on the form so whoever put the form together
believed it was legal to ask for the info. (And this is info you may have
recieved during the course of the legal proceedings.)
As a practical matter, the payroll department needs to know the social security
number in order to take the money out of the guy's paycheck. And if you give
them the number up front it's much easier for them to find the right record on
the payroll database (although the name, address, date of birth, etc. are
probably enough info to identify the person.) I suspect that the company
regularly gets garnishment notices like this, and that virtually all of these
notices do come with the social security number on them.
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Tim Horrigan <horrigan@aol.com>
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