Re: Life, The Universe, and Everything
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:32 pm
In the spirit of just blabbing around the water cooler...
Today I learned that if you have no credit rating (which I already knew was in some ways worse than having a bad one) - our Social Security Agency is unable to create a "MySSA" account.
After a few tries and oddball errors, I called their help desk and got this info - it's confirmed by them. Even with a valid SSN and plenty of other info...they can't confirm you are you.
Much diligence. Much competence. Wow!
Some of the services one could reasonably consider essential (an important legal term in the paperwork reduction law) cannot be accessed without such an account.
So, the government is relying on a putatively independent set of businesses - which recently had pants-down grade leaks (Equifax)...to prove I am myself! I guess NSA doesn't answer phone calls from that agency.
Didn't know there was effectively a penalty for not paying rent to banksters.
We of course have to pay all of them anyway...
Today I learned that if you have no credit rating (which I already knew was in some ways worse than having a bad one) - our Social Security Agency is unable to create a "MySSA" account.
After a few tries and oddball errors, I called their help desk and got this info - it's confirmed by them. Even with a valid SSN and plenty of other info...they can't confirm you are you.
Much diligence. Much competence. Wow!
Some of the services one could reasonably consider essential (an important legal term in the paperwork reduction law) cannot be accessed without such an account.
So, the government is relying on a putatively independent set of businesses - which recently had pants-down grade leaks (Equifax)...to prove I am myself! I guess NSA doesn't answer phone calls from that agency.
Didn't know there was effectively a penalty for not paying rent to banksters.
We of course have to pay all of them anyway...