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According to the SSNVS service information, you are supposed to only use this information for correctly completing IRS W-2.

Verifying the SSN using that service for banking (as I'm reading it) is a clear violation of the system.

Reference (http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnvshandbk/ssnvs_bso.htm)

If you were using a different service I'd be interested, as we are always looking for new ways to do validation of accounts.

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We weren't able to use the online verification service , which is the reason I wrote the program I described. It didn't validate a "good" SSN, but rather filtered out bad ones.

http://www.ssa.gov/ and http://www.socialsecurity.gov both have a lot of useful information about structure and allocation of SSNs if you are looking to do something similar.

That was my argument against printing it on my military id. Ignored, of course.

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