My mother, who was EXTREMELY abusive (actually tried to kill me a little over two years ago), and I've been living on my own since I was 17 as a result (I'm freshly 20 now). I'm doing pretty good for myself right now -- I live in a duplex with my LT boyfriend, which is the first place I've lived with MY name on the lease, I was just approved for medicaid, so I'm getting some much-needed treatment, and now I'm launching my business which may have a pretty nice windfall next week. My mother, being that she's my mother, has my social security number, and I've already found she's operating the high school account she opened for me before I left home without my permission and likely using it for tax evasion purposes. Not only do I not want my social security footprint to be associated with illegal activity, but being that my life is starting to settle into some kind of stability, I don't want her to make any attempts at opening accounts under my name, or using my social to get into any of my accounts and take any of my money -- with it, I'll be able to pay off some debts and finally be debt-free and start saving for college, and buy more equipment to make a nice income for myself.
My older cousin, who's dad, mom's brother, is just like my mom advised that I get an "Identity Protection Pin". He got one himself after his father used his pin without HIS permission, and he says that someone must know that pin to be able to use my social in any way. Will that actually protect me?
I read online that if I change my social (which would be one step in a long process to protect myself from her and take back my life, as she's been stalking me for years), I won't be able to get a passport, will have issue getting more government aid if I need it, and pretty much erase all of my job history up until this point. If I can avoid changing it, I'd very much like to. What can I do to protect myself?
TLDR: Thieving, abusive mother has my social security number. May be coming into quite a bit of money soon, and I don't want her stealing it -- what can I do short of changing my social, which has all sorts of other nasty side effects, can I do to protect myself? I've heard of an "Identity Protection Pin". Will it actually keep my finances safe?
Submitted April 20, 2017 at 12:11AM by MommyThrowaway1997 http://ift.tt/2pi1dI3
