An ostensible crackdown on “waste, fraud and abuse” inside the Social Security Administration is making giving birth even more complicated for some Americans.
New parents in Maine must now go into a Social Security office to register their newborn children for a Social Security number, ending a decades-old rule that allowed parents to apply at a hospital shortly after birth. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services notified hospitals via email on Wednesday that “effective immediately, the option for parents to participate in the enumeration at birth process will be suspended,” per the Portland Press Herald.
Doesn’t this sound like they’re trying to control who is a citizen or not?
It doesn’t sound like it; they are trying to control who is a citizen.
Human traffickers love this neat trick!
oh man. making people want to have all the childens.
And good luck finding an SSA office if they are able to follow through on terminating all the leases and consolidating the regions.
Why specifically Maine?
The Maine DHHS, in a statement to the Press Herald, attributed the development to a change in federal policy. It’s unclear if Maine is the only state to be impacted by the change or just the first to experience it.
