WNBC reports:
Sen. Charles Schumer said the government is risking seniors’ financial information by putting their full Social Security numbers on their Medicare cards.
He said Medicare is facilitating identity theft and he’s pushing a bill that would spend $500 million to issue new cards without the numbers.
Is the problem that the numbers are on the cards, or is it the case that the real problem is that cards are being misused as authentication instead of just as identification?