Georgians: Make sure your SS card matches your license!
Posted: May 19, 2005 10:40 pm
If they are willing to go after the Mayor of Atlanta, the rest of Georgia's women don't have much of a shot.
http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_arti ... ryid=63375
A driver’s license law is driving some people crazy, including Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.
The mayor recently received a letter saying her driver’s license would be revoked if she didn’t clear problems with her Social Security card.
The name on her card did not match what was in the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles’ database.
It apparently happens with some frequency with women who change their names when they get married.
“I can tell you when I went to the Social Security administration, there were three other women in the waiting room with exactly the same problem,” Franklin said. “I don’t know if the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, you can be sure they heard a piece of my mind.”
The problem is the result of a procedure enacted in 2003 by the DMV to connect license renewals with the driver’s Social Security records.
InsiderAdvantage, an Atlanta-based political think tank, says the idea apparently came about when the Department of Human Resources asked to use DMV records to track down deadbeat dads and their Social Security Numbers.
Franklin received the letter when she mailed in her license renewal. “It was surprising to me to get a notice 60 days later to say that all of a sudden my license wasn't valid because of some problem with my Social Security number,” she said.
It turns out the Social Security office never updated her records when it issued her a new card in 1972. “Their records showed something else going back to 1968,” she said. “I wasn’t notified by the Social Security administration.”
http://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_arti ... ryid=63375
A driver’s license law is driving some people crazy, including Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.
The mayor recently received a letter saying her driver’s license would be revoked if she didn’t clear problems with her Social Security card.
The name on her card did not match what was in the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles’ database.
It apparently happens with some frequency with women who change their names when they get married.
“I can tell you when I went to the Social Security administration, there were three other women in the waiting room with exactly the same problem,” Franklin said. “I don’t know if the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, you can be sure they heard a piece of my mind.”
The problem is the result of a procedure enacted in 2003 by the DMV to connect license renewals with the driver’s Social Security records.
InsiderAdvantage, an Atlanta-based political think tank, says the idea apparently came about when the Department of Human Resources asked to use DMV records to track down deadbeat dads and their Social Security Numbers.
Franklin received the letter when she mailed in her license renewal. “It was surprising to me to get a notice 60 days later to say that all of a sudden my license wasn't valid because of some problem with my Social Security number,” she said.
It turns out the Social Security office never updated her records when it issued her a new card in 1972. “Their records showed something else going back to 1968,” she said. “I wasn’t notified by the Social Security administration.”
