We’re repeatedly working to enhance our understanding of how our applications are serving the general public. This work consists of assortment of race and ethnicity information for analysis and statistical functions which helps us decide whether or not we’re equitably serving the general public.

The knowledge candidates and prospects present is voluntary and doesn’t have an effect on choices on profit functions.

Why does it matter if individuals present race and ethnicity information?

When prospects select to offer race and ethnicity info, it lets us know:

• Who our profit funds and applications are serving to and who could also be ignored.
• What unintended obstacles might affect advantages and providers.
• The place to increase outreach efforts.
• Easy methods to improve consciousness amongst people and households of eligibility for applications and advantages.

In different phrases, race and ethnicity information can assist increase entry to our applications, which is without doubt one of the aims in our Fairness Motion Plan. Examples of how we use this info may be discovered on our Racial Fairness Assets web site.

Presently, we accumulate race and ethnicity info throughout functions for brand new or alternative Social Safety quantity (SSN) playing cards. These functions may be accomplished by our On-line Social Safety Quantity Software or web Alternative Social Safety Card software, at considered one of our discipline workplaces, or at considered one of our card facilities.

Quickly, we can even voluntarily accumulate this info from dad and mom in collaborating states in the course of the hospital start registration course of after they request an SSN for his or her new child.

We encourage you to offer your race and ethnicity info throughout your or your little one’s utility for a brand new or alternative SSN card in order that we might higher serve all our present and future prospects.

Tags: Commissioner, Basic Info, social safety, Social Safety card

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