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Article: A GOOD AGE; Protect your Social Security number, protect your identity
- Article from:
- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- February 21, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2006 The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Sue Scheible
The thief was probably following her. Arline Goodman was in a
Quincy supermarket; her purse was in the shopping cart. She turned
her back for a moment to get some eggs and the purse was gone. She
had to cancel her credit cards and still worries about her Social
Security number being known.
"I've been very aware of my personal identity security ever since
that happened," she says. After she retired in October from her job
as a school nurse in Milton, Goodman, 65, switched to the state-run
health plan for former public employees.
"I was very surprised to see that they sent me my new health plan
card with my Social Security number," she wrote in an E-mail. "The
prescription card ...