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Indeed, the first three are dependent on the state that issued your SSN, and the next two often are sequence bits roughly correlating to when it was issued. If anything, those are the public bits


They are not numbered by state anymore


The change was done in 2011, so very likely the geographical-based system applies to anyone fielding collections agency phone calls in the present day.


True, I'll give you that




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