Filled out the birth certificate info form and checked "NO" on the box where it asks if you want your child assigned a SSN at birth. Also left the signature section blank so there couldn't be any mistaking the intention. Hospital submitted paperwork requesting that a SSN be assigned and says that they're automatically assigned even if you don't request it or get a card. The folks in the medical records say they're trying to "reverse" the process and that we'll hear back from them later. I do have an attorney but I'm really not interested in pursuing anything further than not being issued a SSN. Leads me to a couple questions.
Is everyone assigned a SSN (or other numerical identifier) at birth regardless of consent or knowledge thereof?
Aside from the hospital doing what they can to correct it, is there anything I should do on my end?
EDIT: I would like for my children to make an educated decision as to if they want one or not. Since I can't ask now and it's generally not reversible, we decided to not have one issued to him. While it may be inconvenient I think I'd rather he make the decision himself when he's able to understand it. From my research, many forms can just be left blank when asking for a SSN or filled with 000-00-0001 or the like.
Princess_Fairie24 on October 12nd, 2018 at 16:28 UTC »
Oh yay, story time!
So my first firm after law school was personal injury based. In my state, any personal injury settlement awarded to a minor, no matter the size, is required to be put into a blocked trust account until the minor comes of age. It's a major inconvenience on all parts, but it makes sense as a protection for the minor (they can't blow the money as a child, and since it is Vegas, the parents can't gamble it away). (I'm fairly certain long ago it was customary for the firms to just hold the settlements in their ioltas until the minor came of age, but then it likely occurred to everyone that banks tend to have greater longevity.)
This firm also dealt with an extraordinarily high number of non-American born clientele. In one fun instance, my clients tried to set up the blocked account for their child but hit a roadblock because the child lacked a ssn. The child had been born abroad, and was only 6 at the time, so he wasn't assigned one at birth, and hadn't yet needed one. This turned into me explaining the difficulties of setting up the account to the judge. I was essentially instructed that I needed to figure out a way to set up this account, no excuses. The bank refused to set up the account without a ssn/itin and the court didn't care why it hadn't been done, they just wanted it done. This led me to looking into the ability to set up an ITIN for this child, and whether or not I could largely do it for the parents (as they didn't speak English).
Long story short, this nutcase isn't doing his child any favors by "letting him decide later." (There's a good chance if his child isn't an idiot like him, his decision will be to question why his parents insisted on making everything so much harder than it needed to be)
narwhalsATTACK on October 12nd, 2018 at 15:35 UTC »
No one in the original thread addressed what I noticed: that LAOP said he checked the "no" box for the SSN and then didn't sign the form "so there couldn't be any mistaking the intention." To me, I think an unsigned form would have the opposite effect. When you sign a form you've filled out, you're endorsing the information you put down and agreeing that you mean what you wrote. So if he didn't sign the form, maybe the hospital could say it was a poorly filled out form and their default is to issue an SSN.
I am 99% percent sure his signature or lack thereof on that form is legally irrelevant, but I thought it was interesting.
Edit: quotation phrasing
fatninja111 on October 12nd, 2018 at 14:58 UTC »
I wonder if it's so law enforcement wouldn't know the child exists. Laop wouldn't have sneaking Leo's wondering why their kid never went to school or issues with reported abuse if the govt didn't know they existed