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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <233@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 10:44:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 10:44:20 1985
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Summary: 

Just out of curiosity:

I took my husband's last name when I married five years ago.  I went
down to the Social Security office to change my name.  They were
taking a holiday.  After two more unsuccessful trips, I called to see
if they would mail me the forms.  They wouldn't.  Said I could come by
and pick the form up and mail it in.  (Lots of help, huh.)  Then I found
out that, if I did mail the form, I would have to send my REAL marriage
license with it, not a copy.  Do you think I trusted them with it?  NO!

So I decided not to bother.  I figured they post by account number, not
name anyway.  The only time it's come up since then is that, when my
husband and I filed our first joint tax return, the IRS sent us a letter
saying the name on the form didn't match the name on my Social Security
account and asking me to verify that my name and the number were both
correct.  I did so.

Is there any real need to hassle with Social Security over my name?  If
so, what is it?

		charli