Hello Cousins, I have been reading different ones talking about the Soc. Sec. Card and how it is so much of our lives, and how if someone takes it can really raise a lot of problems. Well, one thing some of you might not think about is giving your information to the School that your children are going to. they ask you for your SS#, address, phone number, and if your children are getting help from the state you provide that to them as well, or if they get SSI if they are disabled, you give them the child SS# as well. One may think you can trust the school, but you cant. If for some reason someone who works in the school, gets mad at you, and decides to make your life miserable, well they can and I had it happen to me. The Principal of the school, took this information out of my daughters school file, and he called the welfare and told them that I was working (I am disabled since 1990) and making a lot of money each month, then call the Soc. Sec. Local office telling them the same thing. the lady from the Soc Sec. Office called me and asked me about it, I told her it was not so. And she didn't think it was. And then the Welfare I fought with them for 3 months getting this straighten out. He also called my phone company and they were shutting off my phone (called my phone company after I learned about the cable being shut off and found they were also shuting off my phone on the next day) and my tv-cable (the cable was having trouble and was called to see what the problem was, and they said it was ordered to be shut off that next day) He tried to do the water to my house I was renting, but the city would not do that since the landlord had a agreement that the water bill would be paid regardless. So don't give out any kind of information to even the schools, it just takes one dishonest person to really mess you up. I have a child that has emergencies, and I have to have a phone. And he knew this as well. He was caught discriminating against my disabled daughter, and was asked to resign, or he could be fired for it, so he resigned, and moved away to another school to pull it on some else. He just moved away with out getting into any kind of trouble. he acted as if he was part of my family, no one questioned him at all. the only reason I know who it was is because, one 3 places had this information, 1. the school, 2. the welfare 3. the Soc. Sec. office. Don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out. I now have a red flag on any of my accounts each one has a password that is different, that way if this ever happens to me again, I have the person red handed. be aware! Gail Meeks Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com