Camp presents Poe’s Boston College ID to refute alleged use of 2 SSNs

The camp of Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday presented a photo of her ID card from Boston College to refute reports that she used two social security numbers (SSN) in the United States.

Poe's Boston College ID featured her photo as a student. Indicated on the left part of the card was her name, Mary Grace Poe, and her student number: 005031988. Also printed was the letter U and the number 91.

Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian, the senator's spokesperson, said the ID card clearly showed that her supposed second SSN was her student ID number from Boston College.

Poe earned her Bachelor of Arts degree major in Political Science from the Massachusetts-based institution in 1991.

It was the Daily Tribune that first reported that Poe illegally obtained an SSN from a dead person and used it under her full name, Grace Poe Llamanzares.

A report published on Tuesday in the Philippine Daily Inquirer said Poe's claim that her second SSN was Boston College ID number was "improbable" because ID cards issued by the institution in the early 1990s showed that students only had eight-digit numbers, not nine digits as with SSNs.

The report added that Poe's claim about her SSN being her student ID number was spurious because it meant that "all students enrolling on the same day shared the same student ID," and because the enrollment date she had claimed of May 3 "is around the time students prepare for their finals, not the enrollment period."

"Clearly, the news article has no basis and the evidence attached refutes its allegations," Gatchalian said.

The mayor maintained that Poe "has been honest in her disclosures from day one." —NB, GMA News