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by toomuchtodo 1660 days ago
I wouldn't say it's the easiest path, but a critical path. A social security number is usually required to provide identity resolution confidence (name, birth date, and address are insufficient). Don't take my word for it, that's straight from the Internal Revenue Service's Privacy Impact Assessment for it's ID.me identity proofing partner [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pia/id-me-pia.pdf (Pages 2-3)