Vocabulary-Routing

Exit 6 and the Bureau Face: Vocabulary as Routing Control

The system's own regulations call the SSN an account number and say income is "posted to the record." Engaging that bureau-face vocabulary routes an encounter through a different statutory pathway with a different verified deadline — a FOIA request (5 U.S.C. § 552) and a Privacy Act request (§ 552a) are different legal instruments from a collection dispute, not synonyms. That the pathways exist is verified and supported. Whether walking them changes substantive outcomes is unresolved — the §1983/APA/mandamus mechanisms are named here as an open research agenda, not asserted as tested. Partially-supported, with the architecture's reality kept strictly apart from the remedy's open question.