government accountability office, samuel lester, consumer privacy counsel , electronic privacy information pauer, toll roads and we -- l -- that's not right. rozenswie. >> steve groman, senior vice president and chief technology officer of mcafee. ,eremy grant, coordinator better identity coalition. james lewis, senior vice policynt, technology program center for strategic and international studies. acting commissioner, please begin your testimony. >> the scope of our program is enormous. for supplemental income recipients. during fiscal year 2017, we paid $134 billion to social security ssificiaries and recipients. in addition, we posted earning items to workers record last year. this underpins the programs we administer. the nine digit number in 1936 to allow employers to accurately report earnings and determine eligibility for benefits. today, we have issued around 505 million unique numbers to eligible individuals. the social created security number for our programs, it has become a personal identifier used broadly across government and the private sector. for example, in 1943, the executive