I feel a little younger than I used to.
Mar. 23rd, 2010 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraSo, I e-filed taxes with HR Block. Then I got an email saying there was a problem with my return--name and birthday weren't matching up. I curse HR Block's software, sure that they screwed it up, but I call the SS administration to check. (By the way, contacting the SS at 8a.m. on Tuesday morning was super-fast. I wasn't really on hold at all. Awesome.)
Turns out that when I got married and changed my name, lo those many years ago, they also changed my birthdate. Oopsies! The SS administration thinks I'm 10 days younger than I used to be. And because I've been filing paper returns for the last nine years, I was never notified that there was an inconsistency.
This is funny except that now I have to fix it before I can file my taxes. Or I can file my taxes with the wrong birthdate, I guess. I'm not even sure where my birth certificate *is*! If I'm lucky, they'll accept a passport.
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On a mostly unrelated note, I'm listening to this radiolab podcast about the impostor phenomenon, and it's weird and strange and sort of links to the social security thing, and I think there may be a story in there somewhere.
Turns out that when I got married and changed my name, lo those many years ago, they also changed my birthdate. Oopsies! The SS administration thinks I'm 10 days younger than I used to be. And because I've been filing paper returns for the last nine years, I was never notified that there was an inconsistency.
This is funny except that now I have to fix it before I can file my taxes. Or I can file my taxes with the wrong birthdate, I guess. I'm not even sure where my birth certificate *is*! If I'm lucky, they'll accept a passport.
...
On a mostly unrelated note, I'm listening to this radiolab podcast about the impostor phenomenon, and it's weird and strange and sort of links to the social security thing, and I think there may be a story in there somewhere.