Two women, one Social Security number: How a bureaucratic error derailed their lives

Two women have experienced years of financial disruption, credit damage, and immigration uncertainty due to the administrative error, with one warned that reporting it could delay green card processing.

In the vast machinery of American bureaucracy, two women named Jieun Kim — born the same day in Seoul, living now in different American cities — were assigned a single Social Security number, binding their financial and legal identities together in ways neither invited nor could easily undo. Since 2018, the error has compounded quietly into a five-year ordeal of frozen accounts, damaged credit, and stalled immigration dreams. What the Social Security Administration created in a moment of clerical failure, it has so far declined to fully repair — leaving two people to bear the weight of an inst

Two women, one Social Security number: How a bureaucratic error derailed their lives

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