I had an issue a few months ago. We were trying to get a home equity loan. When the credit union did their research, it came back that I owed child support. Interesting, since I don't have any children. Basically, since the SSA told other government bodies that they couldn't use social security numbers anymore, they use names and birth dates. However, this was old enough, that it did not have a birth date associated with it (something about it happened before stuff like this was entered into the computer system, so they didn't have a birth date). So any Tim Wilson matched, and there's only a couple of those (sarcasm). I had to have a friend of mine sign an affidavit saying that I was not *that* Tim Wilson. Nothing like guilty until proven innocent. Even checking credit reports would not have caught this. Note this was a home equity loan. We did not have this problem when we bought the house, or when we refinanced it. Of course, that was when things could be looked up by SSN.
<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tim