> Numident is used to store records of every person who has ever applied for a Social Security Card

IIRC, a Social Security Card application is a multi-page form which contains a good portion of the info most financial institutions use to verify identity.

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cafard 16 hours ago | parent [-]

As far as I know, American hospitals see that newborns leave with birth certificates and Social Security cards.

	▲	TheNewsIsHere 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The cards and certified birth certificates get mailed out by the relevant agency. The hospitals can provide the data to the parents. The program that enables hospitals to enroll newborns with the SSA is optional and voluntary. Strictly speaking, if the hospital doesn’t do it, the parents have to do it. If the parents never do that, then the child would need to eventually do that. And of course there are people who haven’t been issued one before, for various reasons, including people who come to live in the US. And some people aren’t born in hospitals.