Ina, I think SS cards are a bad idea. Everybody loses it at some time in their life…don't they? I mean life is long. I left my son's SS card in the copier at the post office once and when I went back it was gone . Seriously, they should come up with a better idea.
Good morning, @Ina I. Wonder ... I hope it's a fabulous day for you! That stinks about the SS card! But you did put a fire under me to try to remember where all of our cards may be! Like you, just knowing the number has been good enough all these years... decades even! I didn't realize anyone could actually "demand" to see the paper card! I carried the card in my wallet for years but then read some financial advice after my credit card (no longer have one of those monsters!) was used for unauthorized purchases... it concerned not doing things to "help" a thief steal your identity like carrying a SS card with you... so I removed it.
You are braver than I am Ina! I refuse to drive in Houston on any of the freeways anymore. My eyesight isn't the greatest, and driving around the city just doesn't excite me. I'm near 290, and that is a nightmare now with tons of construction going on. (It's going to be a double-decker freeway when it's done... maybe in 10 years. ) I don't understand the need for a SS card when your Medicare card is an extension of your SS! When I went go to the Social Security office for a hearing, or whatever they call it, when my husband died, I brought everything but the kitchen sink with me! I was there to start collecting my husband's SS, and drop mine. (I was 68, and could collect it @ 100%) .. They needed every form of ID, and a 'notarized' copy of our marriage license. What shocked me the most was that I had it !!! Everyone makes you jump thru hoops for everything.
I lost my SS card too. Turned my apartment upside down one weekend looking for it. I hope I don't have to go to a SS office to get another. That would be in a town 25+ miles away, and I'm not up for any trips longer than about an hour.
They claim you don't need it ... http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/feder...ace-A-Lost-Or-Stolen-Social-Security-Card.htm
Good morning, everyone. Mari, those Maple Bacon Pop Tarts sound delicious. Droool! Ina, good luck today.
Today is wait day. I'm waiting for the grocery ladies to bring some food and waiting for a call from an insurance company that was supposed to call around noon or so. Both things will probably happen at the same time. I been finding pennies all over the floor this morning. Yesterday Buddy came by wanting quarters for the laundry machines. I asked how many he needed. He was carrying a bank, and opened it to count out change for quarters. It was full of pennies and naturally, he spilled most of them all over the floor. We picked up all we could find, but missed some. I told him to keep his bank and he could pay me back when he gets his check, which he always does. Now that we have a snow cover, tonight would be a great night to hunt bunnies. That's illegal as heck, but that never stopped me in my bad old days. I would go out to a dirt road that ended where an old bridge once spanned a smaller river. The nearest house was at the head of the road, a mile away. Back across a field was an old levee. I drove my car across the field and parked in the bushes, a good distance off the dirt road. I would walk down that levee a ways, and sit in a spot where I could look over an open area littered with brush piles. On moonlit nights, I could see the bunnies hopping about the open and in sparsely covered brush. A shotgun made too much noise, and the sound carried too far in the cold night air. So, I rigged a .22 rifle using .22 short cartridges, Which are quieter than the .22Lr's, with a shotgun scope that had little magnification, about 1.5x. I could see the cross hairs of the scope against the snow, but had to guess where they intersected against a darker background. Nevertheless, this rig put many bunnies in the freezer. Those days are long over for me now. I wonder if there will be rabbits to hunt in the next life?
I think it's ridiculous the way we're supposed to keep track of those things for half a century and more and they expect us all to just have it at our fingertips... my goodness! So I gather this is one of the very few things that can't be done online these days? Seems that most everything can be. I was asked for an electronic signature this morning... "attach here." Uh, yeah, right.... I have *no* idea what that is, and even if I knew what it is, I don't have one.
Well folks I made it. Yesterday when the VA volunteer department called me, they reexplained everything I would need for today. I explained that when I contacted the SS office concerning a replacement card, and the fact that my driver's license, (first, maiden, & last), and my SS card, (first, middle initial, last), didn't have the same name, they said that to change my name for SS would stop my disability checks for an unknown period of time, and that it would also effect all my previous federal information. It would be easier to change my driver's license information. But the VA told me to come anyway, and we would just have to see. So I did. We had orientation from 8 to 12m. Then we all left to find lunch, and I still didn't know what was going to happen about my lack of ID. At 1m I went for fingerprinting and to take a photo for an ID. At 1:30 a man came into the office I was in, he spoke to the gentleman doing my paperwork. He asked if I had passed, and he was told of my problem with the ID. He ask me my full name and address, and of course I gave it. He looked at me oddly, and asked me if I was the person that spent three years working in two Texas prisons with a group called, Bridges To Life, I answered yes. That's when he told me that this information came up on the background check he had run, and if it was good enough for the state, it was good enough for them. Then he asked me if I voted, and I said yes, but I didn't have my card with me. He sat down at the computer, did a search, and then printed out a copy of my voter registration card. Plus out of the 20 people to volunteer, I am the only one that applied for the NVDA unit, (No Veteran Dies Alone), and it had closed because of a lack of participation last Decemember. He said that with me he felt he could get the unit back up and running by March. He has two men that say they will join if he can get the third volunteer he needed, and I guess that is to be me. He asked me if I would be willing to work elsewhere until the unit was back up, so I thought about it and today I chose the Chapel department in honor of @Bobby Cole , and @Yvonne Smith. I met both of them last year, and I was impressed with their involvement in working with missions. Turns out the man I was talking to is the Chaplin, and he was to be my supervisor for the NVDA unit anyway. So I'm doing the Happy Dance.
@Chrissy Page , My supervisor will call to tell me when I can start, but only after all the paperwork has come back, which I'm told could be from 2 to six weeks, depending on how quickly they can process everything. So I guess the old issue of hurry up and wait is still around. @Lara Moss , I don't know about saving the unit, I got a feeling that might be the chaplin's honor, but I did get my volunteer's vest today. So I'm ready and waiting.
That's the same color blue my St. Agnes jacket was but I had to pay I think $25 for it, also had to but a pair if white nurse's pants and white tennis shoes. Also had to pay a yearly $25 fee for something.
Good morning everyone it's 7:00 am and we are off to Sigiriya for the day. Have a great day will check in later.