Bill Aims to Remove SSNS from Medicare Cards

A newly-introduced bill in the U.S. Senate proposes an end to the practice of placing Social Security numbers on Medicare cards in an effort to protect Medicare beneficiaries from identity theft. Dubbed “The Social Security Number Protection Act,” the legislation, introduced by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Herb Kohl, D-Wis., would require the federal government to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare identification cards and communications to Medicare beneficiaries.
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