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Question: How do I go about obtaining a copy of my Social Security card? I misplaced it and cannot locate it after looking high and low.
Answer: Hawaii’s new requirements for driver’s licenses, which took effect Monday, have people scrambling to see if they have the needed documents, including proof of a Social Security number (see Kokua Line, Feb. 29).
“You can get a replacement Social Security card through the Social Security Administration, but you may not need one,” said Jane Yamamoto-Burigsay, spokeswoman for the SSA in Honolulu. “The public believes that the only acceptable document for proof of a Social Security number is the original Social Security card. This is not true.”
The list of other documents (original or certified copy) bearing a Social Security number that will be accepted as proof: a W-2 or 1099R Form; a Medicare Card (Suffix A, M, T and TA only); an SSA 1099 form from the previous year; a non-SSA 1099 from the previous year; a valid U.S. Active Duty/Retiree/Reservist Military ID Card (with photo, name, Social Security number and date of birth); a DD214 form; a pay stub; a valid U.S. Jurisdiction-issued driver’s license/photo learner’s permit (with signature and card holder’s name matching other submitted documents); and a valid U.S. Uniformed Services ID and Privileges Card (with photo, name, Social Security number and date of birth).
For more information on what’s needed to prove ID and legal presence, go to http://hawaii.gov/dot/hawaiis-legal-presence-law or call the driver’s licensing office. On Oahu, the number is 532-7730.
If you still want a replacement Social Security card, go to the SSA’s website, www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber/, where you can download an application, or call toll free 800-772-1213.
You generally are limited to three replacement cards in a year and 10 during your lifetime. There is no charge.
To get a replacement, you will need original documents proving U.S. citizenship (birth certificate or U.S. passport) and identity (passport, state ID card or driver’s license). The SSA says it “may use one document for two purposes,” e.g., a U.S. passport as proof of both citizenship and identity.
You will need to fill out Form SS-5, then take or mail the documents and application to the nearest SSA office. On Oahu: Room 1-114, Prince Kuhio Federal Building, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96850; and Halekuai Center, Suite 201, 563 Farrington Highway, Kapolei, HI 96707.
Q: Can you print a list of all the organizations that take donations of cars?
A: There are many nonprofits that accept vehicle donations, such as the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii.
Just contact the organization of your choice or go through a business that accepts car donations on behalf of designated charities, selling the vehicles and passing on the proceeds to the organizations, minus a fee.
Among those is Kokua In Kind — www. kokuainkind.com, 834-6603 — which has partnered with nonprofits, such as MADD Hawaii, Goodwill Hawaii, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, Hawaii Children’s Cancer Foundation, Palama Settlement, Hawaii United Okinawan Association and Hawaii Public Radio.
Mahalo
To everyone who helped when my brother-in-law went into cardiac arrest while we were having dinner at Buzz’s Steakhouse in Pearl City on Monday, Feb. 6. He and my sister-in-law were visiting from Akron, Ohio. Thanks to the managers who got him to the floor, a nurse and a doctor in the restaurant, and a policeman who had a defibrillator in his car, as well as the first responders from the Waimalu fire station, my brother-in-law is doing well. We didn’t get any names, but you were all guardian angels. Mahalo for your ohana spirit. — Fortners/Chows
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