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By Jon Yates
| A Tribune reader from Homewood e-mailed Problem Solver Jon Yates after having a discussion with co-workers about this year’s census count. “Two women in our office mentioned that their Census forms asked for Social Security numbers,” she wrote. “I showed them my form, which did not ask for that info. Now, they are worried that they could have been victims of a Census scam.”

The Problem Solver called Census Bureau spokeswoman Eun Kim, who said Doolan’s co-workers were right to be suspicious. Census forms do not ask for Social Security numbers, Kim said.

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