More than one social secuirty number?

Question

Why would someone have more than one? Any legitimate reason?

Answer 1

Every person in the US is issued one social security number upon birth. If for some reason a person has to change their identity, they receive another social security number and their original is destroyed, so no, no one can have two social security numbers-- unless they work for the FBI or some undercover operation but that's not what you were asking. :-)

Answer 2

There has been some cases were someones social security number was accidently entered in incorrectly.  Say if you pull up a background using the ss# you may have more than one name come up but only one of the names is the owner and the others were just accidently entered incorrectly

Answer 3

It is illegal to have more than one social security number. There would be no legitimate reason.