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Are they gonna hunt up the witnesses and baptismal certificates and whatever for people like my 93 yr old granny who has no birth certificate to let them get the $20 dollar birth certificate to apply for an id? Are they gonna hire someone to take her in her wheel-chair with her O2 bottle to get her picture made? The obstacles are not troublesome for fraud artists but they are for the elderly and infirm, especially the rural population.
Probably not, but then old people don't really matter when they pass laws like this.
Does your 93 yr old Grandmother collect Social Security?
When my mother applied for hers, she didn't have a birth certificate.
We had to get school and church records plus 2 relatives older than her that could swear when she was born
Only then would they issue a birth certificate which she needed for SS
I know, I did all that for her years ago to collect rr retirement. That's the reason I remembered (some of) what it took. I was just making the argument, she's gone now but she would have been 112 come the 28th of this month. Thanks for your kindness, the info will probably help someone else.