Social security card - When it comes to matters of personal identification and government benefits, is one of the most important documents in your possession.
From proving citizenship to accessing retirement funds, this tiny piece of plastic has big implications for your financial future.
But with changing laws and regulations, it can be hard to keep up with the latest requirements for obtaining and using a social security card.
In this blog post, we'll dive into everything you need to know about social security cards in 2023
- from how to get one to why it matters more than ever before!
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What is a social security card?

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Social security card
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Social security card - A social security card is a government-issued document that contains a nine-digit number unique to each individual.
This number, known as the Social Security Number (SSN), serves as an identifier for various purposes, including tax reporting and eligibility for government benefits.
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The SSN was created in 1936 as part of the Social Security Act signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The act aimed to provide social welfare programs such as retirement and disability benefits to eligible citizens.
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Initially, the primary purpose of the SSN was to track earnings and contributions toward these programs.
However, over time it has become a widely used form of identification for everything from opening bank accounts to applying for jobs.
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While obtaining a social security card is not mandatory in all cases, having one can be beneficial in many situations.
It's important to keep your card safe and secure since it contains sensitive information that could lead to identity theft if stolen or lost.
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How to get a social security card?

Social security card - Getting a social security card is an important step that everyone needs to take as it serves as proof of your identity and helps you access various benefits.
Here is how to get a social security card:
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Firstly, you need to fill out the application form for the SS-5 which can be found on the Social Security Administration's website or in person at their offices.
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Next, gather all necessary documents such as birth certificate, passport or driver’s license and provide them along with your application.
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You may also need additional documents depending on whether you are applying for an original social security number or if you have lost your previous one.
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After filling out the application form and gathering all necessary documents, submit them either online or in person at a local Social Security office.
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If everything goes smoothly, then you should receive your new social security card by mail within 10 business days after applying.
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In case there are any issues with your application process, don’t hesitate to contact the SSA customer service support for assistance.
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What are the benefits of having a social security card?

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Social security card - Social security card - Having a social security card comes with numerous benefits that are essential for every citizen or legal resident in the United States.
Firstly, this document is proof of your Social Security number, which is an important identification number required by many institutions such as banks and employers.
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Secondly, a social security card provides eligibility to receive various government-funded benefits such as disability payments, retirement benefits, and Medicare.
Without this card or your Social Security number, it becomes difficult to apply for these programs.
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Moreover, having a social security card is crucial when filing tax returns since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires it to track taxpayers' financial information.
It also helps monitor fraudulent activities related to income taxes.
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Lastly but not least importantly, possessing a social security card proves citizenship or legal status in the US and serves as evidence of lawful employment authorization for non-citizens who have permission from Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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Having a social security card provides access to numerous services critical to living in the US legally and comfortably.
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How to use a social security card?

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Social security card - Once you have your social security card, it's essential to know how to use it properly.
Your social security number is a unique identifier that follows you throughout your entire life. It's used for everything from opening bank accounts and applying for loans to getting a job.
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One of the most important things you can do with your social security card is keep it safe and secure. Never carry it around with you in public unless absolutely necessary, as losing or having it stolen can lead to identity theft and other serious problems.
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When you do need to use your social security card, make sure that the person or organization asking for it has a valid reason for doing so.
You should never give out this information unnecessarily, as doing so increases the risk of fraud and identity theft.
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It's also crucial that any documents or paperwork containing your social security number are stored securely as well.
Make sure that any files saved on your computer are password-protected and encrypted if possible, and always shred any physical documents before disposing of them.
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By taking these simple steps, you can ensure that your social security card remains safe and secure while using it whenever necessary without putting yourself at unnecessary risk.
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Conclusion - Social security card

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Social security card - Having a social security card is an essential part of being a citizen or resident in the United States.
It serves as proof of your identity and allows you to access important government benefits, such as Medicare and Social Security.
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As we approach 2023, there are several changes that will affect how you obtain your social security card.
The most significant change is the shift from physical cards to digital ones.
While this change may take some getting used to, it's designed to make the process more secure and efficient.
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Remember always to safeguard your social security number since it can be used by fraudsters for personal gain.
You should only provide it when required by law or trusted organizations like banks or employers.
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Having a social security card is vital for accessing crucial government benefits in the US.
Make sure you keep up with any upcoming changes so that you can continue using yours effectively!

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Hello, fellow Travelers! This time we’ll look at Floors 11 and 12 of Spiral Abyss that were changed with 3.7 update.
In this post I will mostly just repeat everything I show in my video Breakdown. There are certain limitations with local editor (including 20 pics limit), but I'll try to leave some notes to make up for it. I'd suggest to watch the video, but feel free to stick to the format you prefer.

General Abyss tips

• Fight as many enemies at once as possible. Most of attacks in Genshin have AoE (Area of Effect) - it’s free damage.
• Protect yourself! Have reliable ways for each team to survive.
• You don’t have to always make teams around Blessing or Floor buffs.
• If you struggle to clear the entire floor, focus on one chamber at a time.
• Benedictions (cards) change with daily reset. Just try your luck next day if you need better buffs.

Floor 11 now increases your Normal Attack Damage. It's, obviously, there to make you pull for Yoimiya, but there are quite a lot of characters who can benefit from it too (even if not so much like Keqing or Yanfei, for example, who often use Charged attacks too)

Floor 11 - Chamber 1

Here Pyro is your best option to break Lawachurl’s shield and it’s the only element that we don’t have among Specters in the first half.
Floor 11 Chamber 1 First half - Enemies details

Note: RES (Resistance) values' colors match corresponding elements (white for Physical, red for ALL). For reference, the most common value is 10% ALL RES. Shields are represented with the corresponding element symbol.

It’s also the best one for the second half to deal with Pyro Eremite, plus I’d suggest to bring an archer to easily stun Anemo Hilichurl Rogue.
Floor 11 Chamber 1 Second Half - Enemies details

Note: Eremites have -20% Physical RES, but it's not something I would recommend to rely on

In this chamber we have to protect the Monolith, so don’t rush, take your time and just try to force enemies to fight you. Keep dealing damage to them and draw them away from the Monolith to avoid unnecessary damage. Ranged characters, taunts and any form of crowd-control can help you with that. Note that some of the enemies are more willing to fight you, so prioritize those who focus on the Monolith and you’ll be fine.

Note: e.g. Geo Specters in the first wave prioritize attacking the Monolith while other Specters focus on you right from the start

Floor 11 Chamber 1 Summary

First Half – Better: Pyro, CC, Taunts, Ranged chars / Worse: Cryo, Physical Second Half – Better: Pyro, CC, Taunts, Archer / Worse: Anemo, Hydro

Floor 11 - Chamber 2

Second Chamber starts with just an Abyss Lector and you simply have to be ready to deal with his Electro shield. Pyro, Cryo and Dendro are the best options for this, so any team built around those will work great.
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For the second half remember that Anemo and Pyro are the best options against respective Eremites and Fungi have increased RES to Dendro and their respective elements.
Floor 11 Chamber 2 Second Half - Enemies details
Fungi start very far from each other, but if you run towards the Dendro one, the others should come close enough for you to fight them all at once. Having a way to bring flying fungi down could be helpful to speed up the process.
As for Eremites, rush towards the Galehunter when they appear, because Pyro one can teleport to you. Try to deal with their pets first and you won’t have any problems.
Floor 11 Chamber 2 Summary

First Half – Better: Pyro, Cryo, Dendro Second Half – Better: Anemo, Pyro, AoEs / Worse: Dendro, Cryo, Hydro, Geo

Floor 11 - Chamber 3

In the first half of Chamber 3 you’ll have just two enemies that come out one by one. They have increased Hydro and Physical RES respectively, so don’t rely primarily on those.
Floor 11 Chamber 3 First Half - Enemies details
The best option here is Pyro again, because of the Cryo shielder inside.
Floor 11 Chamber 3 First Half - Cryo Shielder
If you make your teams around Pyro, you won’t even notice it. Including any Archer in your team can be helpful to stun Ruin Drake, but it’s not necessary.

Note: Archers help a lot if your overall DPS is low. Otherwise you might struggle with stunning the Ruin Drake and will have to deal with its increased RES towards your main damage type.

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For the second half shields will be the main problem.
Floor 11 Chamber 3 Second Half - Enemies details
With Abyss Mages it’s much easier to just Swirl them into each other rather than bringing counter elements, because they appear all together.
Floor 11 Chamber 3 Second Half - Swirling shields into each other
And against Hydro shields Dendro or Cryo will be your best bet, so make your teams around those to quickly deal with Heralds.
Remember that two of their attacks increase your cooldowns if you take damage from them, so aside from dodging, you can also rely on shields to prevent that.
Attacks of Hydro Heralds that increase your cooldowns
Floor 11 Chamber 3 Summary

First Half – Better: Pyro, Archer / Worse: Physical, Hydro, Cryo Second Half – Better: Anemo, Dendro, Cryo, Shields

Here’s what we get in the end and these teams were just enough to clear it all earning 9 stars, but, of course, they could be easily improved if you have better characters.
Floor 11 - Summary and Teams
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With current Floor 12 HoYo gave up and made a straight up pay-to-win Abyss.

Floor 12 - Chamber 1

Chamber 1 starts with Whopperflowers that have increased RES, especially to their respective elements, and Primal Constructs against which Freeze or Quicken can be quite helpful to knock them out of invisibility.

Note: I suggest to stick to the latter because of Cryo Whopperflowers, so Spread, Aggravate or even Hyperbloom teams will work great here.

Floor 12 Chamber 1 First Half - Enemies details
For both Whopperflowers and Constructs there will be six enemies in total. Three of them will appear at once and new enemy will appear every time you kill one, so it’s better to kill all three together to split each fight into two proper waves.
Against Whopperflowers you can easily make them stack together if you just run far enough. But unfortunately, you can’t reliably do the same with Constructs, so if you want to pull them closer, you’ll need Venti or Kazuha. Other characters just can’t move them.

Note: Jean can pull them if you hold her Skill, but it's extremely slow

If you don’t have either, your best option is to rush to the northern wall and wait there: this should stack the Constructs together for a moment, but you have to kill the entire first wave together to use the same trick for the next three.
In the second half we have to deal with Hydro and Cryo shields and, as always, using Dendro and Pyro is the best way to do so.
Floor 12 Chamber 1 Second Half - Enemies details
Abyss Mages shouldn’t be a problem, but Heralds are quite annoying, so here are some tips for them:

• Focus on Hydro Herald first. Without him you won’t have to worry about freezing and cooldown increases
• Bennett’s Burst can prevent you from freezing with its constant Pyro application, but it might increase damage you take as well
• Nahida makes this fight much easier. Her Skill alone does a lot of damage to Hydro shield even while you focus on Cryo Heralds.
• If you don’t have her, Tighnari is the second-best option. He has great solo target Dendro application, but it’s very hard to use him properly here. If you rely on him, bring some shields to at least be able to aim during the fight.
• Also, shields are helpful against Hydro Herald, because your cooldowns won’t get increased if you don’t take damage. Because of that Zhongli is, obviously, amazing, but you might also consider Layla. Her shield is great against Cryo attacks and additional Cryo application can deal extra damage to Hydro shield.
• If you have neither Nahida nor Tighnari, using Dendro will become much harder because Heralds move a lot, however, Cryo also works including Swirling Cryo shields into Hydro one.
• If you have Venti AND Kazuha, you can use Kazuha here. With Bennett it’s easy to make his Burst absorb Pyro and with that it will deal extra damage to Cryo shields and sometimes it also Swirls them into Hydro one, dealing more damage to it too which significantly speeds up the process.
• If not, Sucrose with another Anemo character work just fine too.

Bottom line – great options for this chamber are quite limited by the characters you have, but here are the teams that I managed to clear this chamber with earning 3 stars.
Floor 12 Chamber 1 Summary and Teams

First Half – Better: AoEs, Freeze, Quicken, Kazuha, Venti / Worse: Cryo, Pyro Second Half – Better: Dendro, Pyro, Cryo, Anemo, Shields

Floor 12 - Chamber 2

Second Chamber is much more straight-forward. Just use Quicken against Terrorshroom to stun it and simply restart the Chamber if it decides to go for a run and waste your time. Aggravate team is the best pick here because of boss’ extra Dendro RES. For MUCH more info about the boss, you can check the full guide I made.
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Against Thunder Manifestation in the second half Dendro, Pyro or Cryo will be your best options because of its constant Electro aura. The boss often teleports and sometimes even flies up, so ranged characters will have easier time here. Also note that if you apply Dendro or Hydro, they will stay on the boss due to Quicken and Electro-Charged specifics, so Bloom, Hyperbloom or Burgeon will work just fine despite boss’ Electro aura.
Here are teams that I used to clear this chamber, for example.
Floor 12 Chamber 2 Summary and Teams

First Half – Better: Dendro + Electro / Worse: Dendro Second Half – Better: Dendro, Pyro, Cryo, Ranged chars / Worse: Electro

Floor 12 - Chamber 3

Last Chamber this time is all about suffering. In the first half you’ll have to fight 4 Consecrated Beasts split in two waves. They are very resistant to their own elements, move too much, hit like a truck and ignore pretty much everything you do.

Note: Beasts have 40% ALL RES and 70% RES to their own element all the time until they create a shard; then RES drops down to default 10% until they consume it back or wake up after you stun them using it

Do your best to stay close enough to them both to prevent them from using their annoying ranged attacks, but if you have to pick, stick to the Hydro one unless it’s having fun running all over the place or you managed to stun the Dendro beast.
Since they ignore you, the best strategy against them is to ignore them back.
Beasts are extremely difficult to stagger, but can easily stagger you. Increasing your Poise allows you to deal damage no matter what they do. The most common source of Poise is shields. Alongside with them you can get party-wide bonuses with Beidou’s Burst, Xingqiu’s Rain Swords, Dehya’s Skill and Gorou’s Skill. Plus, abilities that trigger special stances such as Bursts of Raiden and Cyno or Skills of Ayato and Hu Tao, for example, also increase your Poise, so I highly recommend relying on those to make your rotations more consistent.
Most common Poise Sources
Luckily, in the second half we have only Iniquitous Baptist. Against him you just have to bring the counter elements to deal with his shields. He will always cycle through Cryo, Hydro and Pyro shields in this order, so you’ll have to rely on Pyro, Dendro and Hydro respectively to quickly break them.
Shield types and counters for Iniquitous Baptist
This elemental combo basically screams Burgeon, but don’t be fooled by it. Abyss version is different from the normal one. Here boss doesn’t create Elemental Rings in the very beginning and shields' durability won't be reduced even if you break all three of them, so you’ll have to deal with stronger shields and normal Burgeon teams don’t have enough Pyro application to quickly deal with them.

Note: The whole idea of Burgeon is in having some form of Pyro to explode the Cores, but not too much so it wouldn't mess up your Core generation

If you want to use Burgeon here, you’ll have to add some source of Pyro on demand - in form of Bennett, for example - so you could deal with the shield, but wouldn't mess up your core generation with extra Pyro applications.

Note: Alternatively, you can try to add Electro in your team for extra application. It’s worse than aforementioned elements, but it works against all three shields.

Also, by applying counter element before boss activates the shield, you can immediately damage it as it activates, which you can use to your advantage, especially if you use Sacrificial weapons that won’t proc if you hit the shield without dealing damage anyway.
This boss isn’t difficult, but might require you to adjust your rotations and come up with some extra Energy generation because of that, although as long as you have ways to break his shields quick enough, he shouldn’t be a problem.
For more info check my full guide.
Moment from the full guide - the best characters to apply counter-elements so far
Here are the teams I used to clear the entire Floor 12 including this Chamber, however I would rather replace Yaoyao with Kirara to have easier time against the Beasts if I had her built.
Floor 12 Chamber 3 Summary and Teams

First Half – Better: Poise, Shields, Healing / Worse: Hydro, Dendro Second Half – Better: Pyro, Dendro, Hydro

Anyway, that’s all I have for you this time, fellow Travelers. Feel free to leave your questions or other suggestions in the comments. Good luck with your runs and have a great rest of your day ^^