My new Medicare card arrived today!
My new number is vastly different from my SSN, and consists of letters and numbers. It's not something that's going to be too easy to memorize, alas. I guess I'll photocopy it so I have a back up and then it's off somewhere to get it laminated.
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But do you really need to memorize it? I hadn't heard that.
SS card is one of the documents you can use to prove you are a citizen to get
a drivers license. The tape I had put on the card 40 years ago is still very
transparent and the card could be easily read. No official documentation is
allowed at the drivers licence bureau if it has been coated or laminated in
any way, just another way to trip people up since most people register to vote
when they get their license. There were two other folks in line with me at the
same time with the same issue. Nope, born in KS and moved out of the state
for several years. The birth id card was issued in KS with a state seal on it and
had always been accepted before the last few years, I had used it to get my
driver's license years back. I'm about 4 years away from getting my Medicare
Card unless the thugs in office manage to screw up things more than they already
have. Cheers...
I don't see how it can prove citizenship. Unless the non citizen's card clearly says it's been issued to a non citizen. I honestly don't know. Plus, if my card says (which it does) Not To Be Used for Identification Purposes, then it's totally invalid for that purpose. I do have a passport, which ought to be the very best piece of documentation there is to prove my citizenship, although too often that is rejected by idiot clerks.
I'm in New Mexico, and it's been a nightmare here for people renewing licenses ever since the bullshit "Real ID". I renewed mine a month early a couple of years ago in the hopes that when I next renew, they'll have worked out all the kinks. Luckily for me I still get a few bills mailed to my home. People who have gone all electronic, or kids who are still at home/in college/otherwise not on their own have a terrible time. Plus, around here the DMV people regularly give people wrong information or require documentation that is not required. I'd think a Social Security card (Not To Be Used for Identification Purposes) would clearly fit that category.
Although I lived in Kansas myself for a number of years, I was not aware that it issued the birth ID card you've described. I'm real familiar with the Pennsylvania problem.
Anyway, a Medicare card, laminated or otherwise, should never be something you need to prove citizenship, so I'm sticking with my decision to laminate.
