If you looked at the SSDI* within the last few weeks and thought you saw some changes and thought that some info was missing, you were right! Check out the following web page which describes some major changes which have been made to the SSDI, effective November 1, 2011. http://stephendanko.com/blog/15164 Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak also wrote about these changes to the SSDI in her blog: http://megansmolenyak.posterous.com/are-we-going-to-lose-the-social-security-deat On a related topic, Megan also wrote about another recent change to FOIA restriction which increased to 100 years and which will cause the blanking out of parents' names on an Application for Social Security Number, SS-5, for anyone born after 1912. Read on: http://megansmolenyak.posterous.com/social-security-administration-extends-foia-r * SSDI = Social Security Death Index