Y'all wouldn't believe flippin' this mess. I applied on-line for my Social security last week and got rejected. Got an e-mail Wed to call this lady in WA state (I'm in TX). The next day I called the local SSA office and they verified the person and number in WA, so I called her. She told me my name in their records was "Selkink" and not "Selkirk" as it is everywhere else, including my 1967 original-issue SS card. She linked me to a form to change the names to match, then I had to go the local SSA office this am with form, DL, SS card, & birth certificate to finish it. The gal there ran my BC and found the same problem - my name is spelled correctly on the actual certificate, but the PA state records have me listed as "Selkerk". So, now I have to file forms in PA to try and get my BC re-issued with the correct spelling BEFORE I can get my SS business fixed. I was born in Philly in '53 and got my SS card in upstate NY in '67. What the hell are the odds that two different bumbling bureaucrats separated by 14 years and 250 miles could make the same mistake? How is it the actual paper certificates are correct, but the GDF'ng records are NOT? I asked the gal at the SSA office today how this mismatch wasn't recognized before now, she showed me their internal doc that's had me listed as "Selkink, a.k.a. Selkirk" since 1967. So why didn't someone bother to try fixing this 48 years ago? Now I've got to fix all this crap on my dime...
This is EXACTLY why I HATE gov't of any and all types!
This is EXACTLY why I HATE gov't of any and all types!
