But people have been born and died, no? I’m sure total used is closer to something like $500-600 million?
Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?
tonyn@lemmy.ml 5 weeks agoThe maximum possible combinations given the current rules set forth by the SSA is 888,931,098.
The United States population on October 11, 2024 is: 337,248,197
The estimated population of humans on earth is 8,078,345,740
The social security administration has said they have enough SSNs to last for about the next 70 years, and will address this issue in the future.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Shouldn’t they do it while the COBOL people are alive to fix the code?