---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 C.F.R. § 1070.63"
title: "12"
number: "1070.63"
heading: "Use and collection of Social Security numbers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/12/1070.63"
---

# §1070.63. Use and collection of Social Security numbers.


The CFPB will ensure that employees authorized to collect information are aware:

- (a) That individuals may not be denied any right, benefit, or privilege as a result of refusing to provide their Social Security numbers, unless the collection is authorized either by a statute or by a regulation issued prior to 1975; and
- (b) That individuals requested to provide their Social Security numbers must be informed of:
  - (1) Whether providing Social Security numbers is mandatory or voluntary;
  - (2) Any statutory or regulatory authority that authorizes the collection of Social Security numbers; and
  - (3) The uses that will be made of the numbers.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 83 FR 46095, Sept. 12, 2018, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 5481 et seq.; 5 U.S.C. 552; 5 U.S.C. 552a; 18 U.S.C. 1905; 18 U.S.C. 641; 44 U.S.C. ch. 31; 44 U.S.C. ch. 35; 12 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 11503, Feb. 15, 2013, unless otherwise noted.