In a message dated 8/20/2002 11:37:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, K11m17s@aol.com writes: > I may be incorrect but I thought I had seen on one of the lists, or even in > a > SSDI that I found that someone explained to me that the "A" on the end of > the > Social Security Number meant that they claimed the Social Security as a > dependent or a spouse but not under their own number. > The way the social security #'s are assigned - If you have a Social security #: - A is the individual - - B is usually the dependant (sometimes if you look at the Calif Index you'll find the wife & husband with the same Social Security #) - D is usually for a disabled person under 62 -A letter before the SS# - usually means they worked for the Railroad hope this helps Kathy