{"id":654587,"date":"2010-02-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/replacing_a_lost_social_security"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:52:06","slug":"replacing-a-lost-social-security-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654587","title":{"rendered":"Replacing a Lost Social Security Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Identity theft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/idtheft.jpg?w=780\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>Because I&#8217;m a government employee, I&#8217;ve gotten emails from time to time from friends of mine who are trying to figure out something government-related and assume I have all the answers. And because I work in the office that runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\" title=\"usa.gov\">USA.gov<\/a>, I can usually point my friends in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Last week a friend of my emailed me to ask how to get a new Social Security card because he had lost his.<\/p>\n<p>I searched for the answer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\" title=\"The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal\">USA.gov<\/a> and passed the information along to him. And I thought I&#8217;d share it with you too.<\/p>\n<p>If your Social Security card was <a href=\"http:\/\/ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov\/cgi-bin\/ssa.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=251\" title=\"how to get a new social security card if yours was lost or stolen\">lost or stolen<\/a>, you&#8217;ll need to find a few things:\n<\/p>\n<p>1. Proof of U.S. citizenship\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Proof of identity\n<\/p>\n<p>3. A filled out application for a new card.<\/p>\n<p>You can then take (or mail) all of these things to your local Social Security office. <\/p>\n<p>Remember all of your identifying documents must be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/w2w.htm%20\" title=\"finding original records\">the originals<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\nAnd even if you&#8217;re issued a new card, you&#8217;ll have to be on the watch for identity theft. So make sure to read up on ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/money\/preventidtheft\/preventing.htm\" title=\"preventing ID theft\">prevent it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>What do you do to prevent your Social Security card from being lost or stolen?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m a government employee, I&#8217;ve gotten emails from time to time from friends of mine who are trying to figure out something government-related and assume I have all the answers. And because I work in the office that runs USA.gov, I can usually point my friends in the right direction. Last week a friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KhR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}