The toddler, whose real name is Caroline Elizabeth Kilburn, has never had a birth certificate in that name and was never assigned a social security number, which made it difficult for her father to get her on Medicaid and qualify for other benefits like day care, even as she was recently sick with a fever.
In March 2023, a judge granted a motion allowing the state Department of Health and Human Services to temporarily use the child’s incorrect name to get a birth certificate and social security number.
This week, Kilburn was invited to the Social Security Administration’s Omaha office, where officials finally provided him with a social security number for the child.
CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs, an Iowa hospital, issued a certificate of live birth, a document used by hospitals to start the process of generating government-issued birth certificates, using a computer-generated name.
Jason Kilburn now hopes to get his daughter, whose real name is Caroline, a proper birth certificate.
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