Just heard about: https://fcw.com/articles/2016/08/15/ssa-two-factor-rollback.aspx Alex, Nicolas, and Holly still need to think about this, however: either freeze their credit or set up an account. > From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora> > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:21:38 -0400 > > This is good news. > > On Aug 11, 2016 10:44 AM, "Robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> wrote: > > > From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora> > > > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:07:30 -0400 > > > > > > I called and spoke with someone after my identity theft. They were the ones > > > that made my account restrictive. I'm not sure if you could just restrict > > > your account from ever being set up. You may have to talk with someone at > > > the SSA. > > > > It looks like people who have a credit reporting freeze cannot set up an > > account according to > > https://faq.ssa.gov/ics/support/kbanswer.asp?questionID=3871 . So, it > > looks like I (or anybody else) would have to jump through a number of > > hoops in order to set up an SSA account, anyway.