Birth certificate
Your birth certificate may seem useless when it comes to identity theft, but in combination with other documents you keep in your wallet, it is a sure ticket to identity fraud.
This means you should be extremely careful when asked to bring all of your most important documents at the same time. For example, when closing a mortgage, you need your birth certificate, Social Security card, and passport.
Security experts say it is of utmost importance to keep your eyes on these documents at all times and take them straight home after finishing the closing procedure. You can leave the celebration for some other day. By no means should you keep all these documents in your wallet or even leave them in your car.
You’ll pay for it if you keep these in your wallet…..
5 thoughts on “9 Items Retirees Should Never Keep in Their Wallet”
The new Medicare cards do not have SS# anymore.
Hello, thanks for the information, long time ago I dropped my Medicare card still with my social security number, obviously I got a new one, but I am still at risk ?
Research shows that once a person relies on electronic currency they increase their spending habits significantly. For sticking to a budget, and putting something away in savings, use of cash is the best policy. You will not spend more than you had planned if you bring along the appropriate amount of cash plus only a “little” extra, and vow to keep the credit cards for emergencies. There is also the aspect of the tangible quality of cash that has a much greater impression on the spender who is trying to be thrifty, as many seniors should be, compared to the ease with which a consumer can rack-up debt with electronic currency or credit cards.
The new Medicare cards do NOT have SSNs on them.
It is easy to ask your bank to remove your address from your personal checks.
Who in the world would carry a birth certificate around?? Or a Social Security card–haven’t we memorized those numbers by now??
I never carry ANY of the things that were advised against carrying in this article.
Cash is Freedom. Most independent Latino businesses only transact in cash.