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Beaver Beacon publishes a Social Security number notice for children, 1987

Also 1987 Social Security notice · child Social Security number announcement

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TypeEvent
Date1987-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
1987-05
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
governmentfamilycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1987 Beaver Beacon published a public-information notice about Social Security numbers for children and directed readers to the Social Security office in Petoskey for applications.

Evidence limits

This record captures what the newspaper notice communicated in 1987; it is not an independent statement of current Social Security or tax-law requirements.

Sources

  1. Publishes guidance saying the new tax law required every child age five or older to have a Social Security number and gives the Petoskey office address and application-document instructions. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1987-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held sixteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the public-information notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon publishes a Social Security number notice for children, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-social-security-number-notice-1987/, accessed [date], citing “Social Security,” Beaver Beacon, May 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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