When you should – and shouldn’t – share your Social Security number

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Your Social Security number is a unique identifier, and more and more entities ask for you the number.

But as the Bamboozled column says on NJ.com, you don’t always have to hand it over.

Take a look at when you should — and when you shouldn’t — share your Social Security number.

This post first appeared in March 2015.