Actually social security numbers have started with 0 for a long time. At one point in time the first digit represented the part of the county the number was issued and 0 was the New England area but in the last 15 years or so as social security has run out of numbers they have had to reuse old numbers and stopped the regional use of the first number of 0 to mean New England area because of identity theft issues.
I have done this credit in past years for my child with this number. I wonder if it is a programming error.
