Newborn's social security card lost in mail?

When my daughter was born we applied for her social security card while in the hospital. After 6 weeks we hadn't recieved it so i contacted someone to findout if it was ever mailed, turns out it was mail out 2 weeks after she was born. I got her a replacement already.. but i cant stop worrying about what happened to the original, is there anyway i can findout if someone is using it?? i dont know what to do besides maybe a credit check. Any ideas???

she's only 6 months old now.. but i'd like to get to the bottom of it before she has any problems later in life. Social security was no help and would not issue her a new number.

Stop worrying. Most lost mail ends up destroyed. In the unlikely event a bad person got a hold of the social security number, it will be at least 15 years before they can use it for credit. Unless the card has been intercepted by Dr. Doom or some other imaginary supervillain, the chances that someone will wait that long to steal your daughter's credit are remote (and in all likelihood, we will have much better methods of protecting credit by then anyway).

And the card itself, as I am sure Social Security has already informed you, is not good for identification anyway.

You can do a credit check if you want, but no one is going to be able to borrow money on the credit of a tiny baby anyway, so you'll discover nothing, which is precisely what is happening. [DON'T go to the commercial "free" credit report websites like freecreditreport.com, though--they aren't really free (don't get me started on these gyp outfits). Go to the credit reporting agencies themselves--Equifax (www.equifax.com), Trans-Union (www.transunion.com) and Experian (www.experian.com), where they are REALLY free.]

Guarding your social security number is a good idea, but in this case, I think you can use your "worry time" more productively to worry about things like being struck by lightning, having a piano fall out of a window onto your head, or accidentally swallowing a bowling ball.

You can go to a website like freecreditreport.com and check her credit report.

As a newborn there should be nothing on it, if there is stuff on it then someones using it.

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