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Signing up for Social Security may soon feel like a trip to the DMV

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Signing up for Social Security may soon feel like a trip to the DMV
Mar 19, 2025

Signing up for Social Security may soon feel like a trip to the DMV

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Changes to the way we sign up for Social Security will require more people to show up to field offices in person.

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Signing up for Social Security could soon feel like a trip to the DMV

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 19, 2025
Additional identity requirements for those signing up for Social Security could boost visitors to field offices that already have long waits.
A change to Social Security identification requirements could lead to as many as 85,000 additional in-person visitors to field offices per week.
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