The Federal Social Security Act (Pub. Law 74-271, August 14,1935, 49 Stat. 620; as amended) is codified at 42 U.S.C. §§301.1399.  The first mention of the social security number in a law or regulation is a Bureau of Internal Revenue regulation dated November 5, 1936 where an identifying number, called an “account number” was assigned to employees covered under the Act. T.D. 4704, 1 Fed. Reg. 1741, Nov. 7, 1936; 26 C.F.R. Part 401 (1^st ed., 1939).  This regulation was issued pursuant to Section 807(b) of the Social Security Act of 1935 and was not a mandatory requirement but simply a directory.

Today, most people are under the impression that a social security number is required for more than just social security purposes, this is not the case and never has been.  This impression came, in part, from the fact that in 1943, the Civil Service Commission decided that there should be a numerical identification system for all Federal employees and proposed to the bureau of the budget that the use of the social security number be authorized for this purpose.  This led to the issuance of Executive Order 9397, as follows:

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9397

WHEREAS certain Federal agencies from time to time require in the administration of their activities a system of numerical identification of accounts of individual persons; and

WHEREAS some seventy million persons have heretofore been assigned account numbers pursuant to the Social Security Act; and

WHEREAS a large percentage of Federal employees have already been assigned account numbers pursuant to the Social Security Act; and

WHEREAS it is desirable in the interest of economy and orderly administration that the Federal Government move towards the use of a single unduplicated numerical identification system of accounts and avoid the unnecessary establishment of additional systems:

NOW THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. Hereafter any Federal department establishment, or agency shall, whenever the head thereof finds it advisable to establish a new system of permanent account numbers pertaining to individual persons, utilize exclusively the Social Security Act account numbers assigned pursuant to Title 26, section 402.502 of the 1940 Supplement to the Code of Federal Regulations and pursuant to paragraph 2 of this order.

2. The Social Security Board shall provide for the assignment of an account number to each person who is required by any Federal agency to have such a number but who has not previously been assigned such number by the Board. The Board may accomplish this purpose by

(a) assigning such numbers to individual persons,

(b) assigning blocks of numbers to Federal agencies for reassignment to individual persons, or

(c) making such other arrangements for the assignment of numbers as it may deem appropriate.

3. The Social Security Board shall furnish, upon request of any Federal agency utilizing the numerical identification system of accounts provided for in this order, the account number pertaining to any person with whom such agency has an account or the name and other identifying data pertaining to any account number of any such person.

4. The Social Security Board and each Federal agency shall maintain the confidential character of information relating to individual persons obtained pursuant to the provisions of this order.

5. There shall be transferred to the Social Security Board, from time to time, such amounts as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to be required for reimbursement by any Federal agency for the services rendered by the Board pursuant to the provisions of this order.

6. This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

Franklin D Roosevelt

The White House

November 22, 1943

Now let us move up to 1974, with the increasing demands being placed on individuals to furnish a social security number in circumstances when use of the number is not required by Federal Law or regulation, the Congress in 1974 passed the Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. Law 93-579, 88 Stat. 1896; as amended). Section 7 of Pub. Law 93-579 provides:

(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any Federal, State. Or local governmental agency to deny to any right, benefit, or privilege provided by law because of such individual’s refusal to disclose his social security account number.

THERE IS NO LAW REQUIRING THE PEOPLE OF THE SEVERAL STATES TO OBTAIN, HAVE OR USE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

“The Social Security Act does not require a person to have a Social Security number to live and work in the United States, nor does it require an SSN simply for the purpose of having one. However, if someone works without an SSN, we cannot properly credit the earning for the work performed.”   SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION  

The people are being forced against their will to provide something that is not supported by any law, and in addition to that, they are being threaten of being denied an equal right!

A private employer cannot lawfully discriminate against the people of the United States and the people and Citizens of the several States, who assert their right to work and the law protects them could become criminally liable, see 18 U.S.C. §242 and 42 U.S.C. §1983:

 Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the Unites States… shall be fined under this title of imprisoned not more than one year, or both;

42 USC § further provides that a violator “shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”