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llworking
While I understand and agree with the point you are making about the SSA...for all practical purposes until the SS card is changed, its difficult to impossible to get other forms of ID changed and to get your new last name recognized. In addition, no government agency (state or federal) is going to recognize the name change until you have change it with the SSA.
You know as well as I do that the IRS, as a prime example, is going to reject any tax return that contains a name that does not match the name on the SSA's records.