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I´m alway´s required to put [faculty/staff/student] SSNs on forms I submit to University Administration. Do I have to continue doing that?

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I´m alway´s required to put [faculty/staff/student] SSNs on forms I submit to University Administration. Do I have to continue doing that?

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While in many of the cases we´ve heard of it is not possible to require an individual to provide a SSN, many of our legacy systems do require it. OBFS, HR, and AITS are all in the midst of formally reviewing forms and requests for Social Security numbers and in many instances making the provision of a SSN optional. However in almost every case submitting a form with a SSN when requested will speed the processing of the form and thus enhance service to the faculty, staff, or student in question. Thus where possible you are encouraged, if dealing with faculty, staff, and students, to ask for their UIN and then complete the form with their SSN retrieved from internal departmental sources or the UIN2SSN application. The following link addresses some specific situations where a SSN has traditionally been requested but may not longer be strictly required. My office doesn’t even have a ceiling – how can my unit afford a shredder to ‘securely dispose’ of documents with SSNs? (alternatively: We

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