verify the ssn with ssa. ssa officials also provide a perspective that limiting the card may result in limited cost savings, if any. in 2016, ssa said the cost for the corpus of stalls or replacement online would be $34. these estimates include staff time, technology, paper, printing, postage and overhead. if the card were eliminated, only some of the cost would be saved because of the labor and other costs still needed to generate a new ssn. a conservative estimate of the savings based on the printing, paper and mailing cost accounts only for $0.60 of the cost of the card. ssa officials stated that the agency spent about $8 million in fiscal year 2016 on paper, printing and delivery of the cards. however implementing a new system to replace the card could offset the savings. >> -- potential barriers for people with limited access to technology. this concludes my prepared statement and i would be happy to answer the committees questions. >> thank you. i appreciate your testimony. mr. lester, welcome. please g

members seeking to change their ssn. customary uses of the cards outside of the federal government, we spoke to a variety of associations representing human resource managers, the finance sector, higher education institutions, and state agencies. the stakeholders we spoke with describe a variety of instances in which individuals may present a card among other acceptable forms of documentation in order to verify their identity or their ssn. for employment, all u.s. employers must verify and document a newly hired employee wash employment eligibility -- employee's employment eligibility. although the card is most this,ly used document for it is just one of many to prove they are eligible to work in the united states. other examples of acceptable documents include a u.s. passport or permanent resident card among others. reason employers may ask to see a card is to verify the accuracy of the employee's ssn because employees can be submitting inaccurate wt forms. the card is commonly used to apply for a java's license under t

as long as the ssn remains key to assessing things of value, particularly credit, the ssn itself will have commercial value and will continue to be targeted by fraudsters for misuse. identity theft is a rode public policy issue that must be addressed. i applaud the chairman and the subcommittee for their efforts to protect the ssn, including mandating the removal of the ssn from the medicare cards and documents mailed by federal agencies. these bills are an important step. however, addressing identity theft requires a unified effort that includes this subcommittee in congress, the administration, public, and private experts throughout the country. our chief information officer is here with me today. he and i look forward to hearing the ideas raised during today's hearing. thank you. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> i appreciate your testimony. >> chairman johnson, ranking member larson, and members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me here to discuss observations on extent to which the paper social security card is currently used and what it

the cause of the use of the ssn congress should take the following measures. the ssn should be prohibited in the private sector without explicit legal authorization and company should be prohibited from compelling consumers to disclose that as a condition of sale or service unless authorized by law. to promote the development of context specific identifiers for example if you are doing thinking you have a bank account number with the drivers license have a drivers license number the advantage of those specific identifiers if one number is compromised thieves do not have access to all accounts. finally congress must not replace the ssn with a national biometric identifier. this would be a very bad idea. this approach would pose serious privacy and security risks with a breach of personnel office management had getters had digitized fingerprints stored in the federal database these would only be compounded if u.s. were to move to a national biometric thank you for the opportunity to testify i am happy to answer your questions. >> think user i appreciate your tes

. >> the good news is that we removed the ssn from this particular form.in the future when you opt out. >> on what date? >> the last two months. >> and in the last -- . >> so this was sent two months ago? >> yes. >> the last few weeks -- . >> she revealed after we questioned the agency about documents i received while on maternity leave, they finally got around to removing the number from the letters mailed every two weeks to every person collecting disability or maternity benefits. >> what prevented you from removing this number three years ago when i first brought it to your attention? >> all of it takes time. we have numerous forms. >> how many people are still getting their social security number in the mail? >> i don't have people. we don't track them by people but by claims. >> reporter: they send out about 3 million claims a year. >> i would say the highest volume of forms are some of the ones we have been able to mitigate the last three years. >> reporter: however, of the more than 450 different affect forms, the state redacted or removed social se

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. >> the good news is we have removed the ssn from this particular form. >> she revealed shortly after i received documents while i was on maternity leave they finally removed the numbers. three years after they promised to do it. in fact, the e.d.d. says it has more than 450 affected forms but only redacted or removed social security numberings from about -- numbers from 160. >> why can't i opt out of mail altogether. >> we don't have that capability right now. >> but we received numerous complaints from people saying they contacted the e.d.d. how often does that happen? >> it's very rare. >> still the agency refused to provide numbers, arguing its not public information. >> it's not disclosable. >> you won't tell us how often you mess up and compromise people's identity. >> i can't. >> unlike most, at least mary knows she was compromised. >> my information is out there. >> she's enrolled in credit monitoring and pulling credit reports just like the agency's effort to stop putting people at risk. julie watts, kpix 5. >>> julie reports the agency has agreed to add a disclaimer on the w

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