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- Under the Freedom of Information Act an individual may request the Social Security application of a deceased person.
As of writing this note in 2011, the request can now be done over the Internet using the online form, SSA-771 "Request for Deceased Individual's Social Security Record".
https://secure.ssa.gov/apps9/eFOIA-FEWeb/internet/main.jsp
The government charges a substantial fee to obtain an original copy but they still complain about a surge of requests for this information due to people being directed from genealogy web sites. In light of their complaints, I offer to promote that tradition of showing people the way.
If the link above is ever changed, just get yourself over to the SSA main web site http://www.socialsecurity.gov and search for "Freedom of Information Act" or "SSA-771" and that should get you into the right area.
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