Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025
Key claim: The bill directs the Social Security Administration to issue a new Social Security number to any child under age 14 whose Social Security card is lost or stolen while being mailed.
Abstract
(HR5348 · 119th Congress) Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025 This bill directs the Social Security Administration to issue a new Social Security number to a child under the age of 14 if the child’s Social Security card was lost or stolen while being mailed to the child. Latest action (2025-12-02): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Why this matters
Children’s SSNs are a high-value identity-theft target because misuse often goes undetected for years, and mail interception of newly issued cards is a known attack vector. The bill gives affected families a concrete right — reissuance of the compromised number — rather than leaving them to monitor and remediate downstream fraud, and it places the operational burden on SSA. It is an incremental, narrow measure that does not alter the broader SSN-as-identifier framework.