CHICAGO (WLS) — The ABC7 I-Crew is on the case of a neighborhood 18-year-old scholar who had no Social Safety quantity.
With out it, he could not work, open a checking account or plan for his future. Now, the I-Crew is stepping in.
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For most individuals, getting a Social Safety quantity is routine. It is issued shortly after delivery.
One south suburban teenager did not have one for almost 20 years, till he known as the I-Crew for assist.
Tyler Brower, 18, stated he could not open a checking account or get a job a driver’s license, all as a result of he did not have a Social Safety quantity.
“It is type of troublesome. It makes me really feel not noted type of when like my mates, they’ve jobs and stuff,” Brower stated. “I used to be born in my home, so once they took me to the hospital, I by no means obtained filed for one.”
The Tinley Park man, who lately graduated highschool, and his grandmother Janet Brower reached out to the I-Crew for assist. They stated they’ve made repeated journeys to Social Safety workplaces within the south suburbs for the final two years.
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“My grandma introduced out me in and yeah, ever since then we went to the Social Safety locations, simply have not been in a position to get it,” Tyler Brower stated. “Each single time that we go there, they all the time simply delay it like they will say like wait 30 or 90 days and so they’ll give us like a cellphone quantity and all that.”
Brower even acquired a letter in December confirming a current software. It stated, “You need to have your card in about two weeks.” However that did not occur.
“Yeah, the place’s my Social Safety quantity?” Brower stated.
Brower additionally could not file for federal scholar assist for faculty, the place he desires to check zoology.
“With endangered animals or deforestation,” he stated.
His grandmother has been accumulating needed paperwork and serving to each step of the best way.
“It is aggravating, however I nonetheless I’ll go on till he will get it. I am not going to cease,” Janet Brower instructed the I-Crew. “He desires to get a job, and he cannot, and he will get depressed about it. So do I. And I simply inform him, I says, ‘I am not going to stop till we get your Social Safety card.’ After which I used to be instructed about the way you, you recognize, interview folks. And I known as and also you got here.”
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After the I-Crew contacted the Social Safety Administration, they stated, “Privateness legal guidelines preclude us from commenting on this case. We’ll contact Mr. Brower immediately.”
“I really feel like I would like the Social Safety card. I need one,” Tyler Brower stated. “I really feel like I, I’ve all the knowledge for it. I’ve all of the issues for it. Like I’ve gone there a number of occasions to totally different locations.”
Shortly after ABC7’s inquiry, Brower lastly acquired his Social Safety card and quantity, 18 years after he was born.
“I simply needed to thank Jason Knowles and the channel 7 I-Crew for getting my Social Safety card,” he stated. “Thanks very a lot.”
Now along with his quantity in hand, Brower plans to begin constructing the long run he is waited so lengthy to start. He is setting his sights on school and a profession working with animals. He is additionally making use of for part-time jobs.
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